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California Faience
Tile Signcirca 1920

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Horizontal ceramic tile with matte slate-blue glaze and incised russet-brown text reading 'California Faience / Made at The Tile Shop / Berkeley, Cal.' within a double-line decorative border

California Faience, Tile Sign, circa 1920, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Bryce and Elaine Bannatyne in association with Bryce R. Bannatyne, Jr. & Company, photo @ Museum Associates/LACMA

Manufacturer
California Faience
Title
Tile Sign
Place Made
United States
Date Made
circa 1920
Medium
Earthenware
Dimensions
6 3/4 x 9 1/4 x 7/8 in. (17.2 x 23.2 x 2.2 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Bryce and Elaine Bannatyne in association with Bryce R. Bannatyne, Jr. & Company
Accession Number
M.89.10.3
Classification
Architecture
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography
  • Bowman, Leslie Greene. American Arts and Crafts: Virtue in Design. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1990.
  • Brown, Kirby William. Preliminary Corpus of California Faience and California Porcelain. Paradise, CA: Kirby William Brown, 2002.