{"id":25,"date":"2014-01-03T14:29:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T22:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2015-02-21T21:05:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T05:05:56","slug":"curious-clay-vintage-tiles-tile-tables-and-art-pottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Curious Clay: vintage tiles, tile tables, and art pottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It all started with a fireplace in our 1936 house. It had a strange tiled mantel depicting Mayan scenes. The tiles looked old, so I assumed they were original to the house, but I had no idea who made them or when. After weeks of online research I learned about Batchelder, Claycraft, Malibu, and the Golden Age of California art tiles, but I was no closer to identifying the maker of the fireplace tiles.\u00a0Discovering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tileheritage.org\" target=\"_blank\">Tile Heritage Foundation<\/a>\u00a0was the break-through. The kind people at the Foundation knew that my tiles were made by Woolenius Tile Co of Berkeley, California, and even sent me a page from the original catalog showing the Design No. 367, my exact mantel. And so it began - the journey through the wonderful world of historic tiles and, more specifically, tile tables.<\/p>\n<p>You are welcome to peruse the <a title=\"Visual Guide to Curious Clay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/?p=520\">quick visual guide to the collection<\/a>\u00a0or simply read below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It all started with a fireplace in our 1936 house. It had a strange tiled mantel depicting Mayan scenes. The tiles looked old, so I assumed they were original to the house, but I had no idea who made them &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/?p=25\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curious-clay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}