{"id":275,"date":"2014-01-10T18:37:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T02:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/?p=275"},"modified":"2014-02-02T20:56:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T04:56:09","slug":"racetrack-table-by-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"Racetrack Table by Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140105-IMG_3794.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-173\" style=\"border: 1px solid #999; margin: 5px 20px 10px 10px; padding: 4px;\" alt=\"Racetrack Table by Taylor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140105-IMG_3794.jpg\" width=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140105-IMG_3794.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140105-IMG_3794-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>Almost every tile company in the 1930s - Taylor, Tudor, Hispano-Moresque,\u00a0D. &amp; M. - had their version of the Racetrack design. They differed slightly in the choices of colors and texture of the glazes. <a title=\"Caltiles.com: shared designs\" href=\"http:\/\/caltiles.com\/shared_designs.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Caltiles.com<\/a> has a great comparison of a few different versions of this shared design.<\/p>\n<p>This particular set of tiles was done by Taylor as evidenced by the colors and very shiny glazes. The design appears on page 239 of the\u00a0<em>California Tile, The Golden Era 1910-1940 (vol. 2)\u00a0<\/em>and page 265 of the\u00a0<i>Encyclopedia of American Art Tiles, Region 6.\u00a0<\/i>It's also shown in Santa Monica Tiles (Taylor Tilery) Catalog Number 2\u00a0as \"25-A Cor.\"<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This table has clearly seen a lot of use over the years. The glossy glazes have some surface scratches, and so does the wood of the table.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dimensions: 12\" x 12\"\u00a0(not including the wooden edge), four 5 3\/4\" x 5 3\/4\" tiles<\/li>\n<li>Acquired: Oakland, California, February 2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140105-IMG_3795.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-174\" style=\"border: 1px solid #999; margin: 5px 10px 10px 10px; padding: 4px;\" alt=\"Racetrack Table by Taylor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140105-IMG_3795-296x300.jpg\" width=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140105-IMG_3795-296x300.jpg 296w, http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140105-IMG_3795.jpg 988w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140105-IMG_3808.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-181\" style=\"border: 1px solid #999; margin: 5px 10px 10px 10px; padding: 4px;\" alt=\"Racetrack Table by Taylor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140105-IMG_3808-300x200.jpg\" width=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140105-IMG_3808-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140105-IMG_3808.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost every tile company in the 1930s - Taylor, Tudor, Hispano-Moresque,\u00a0D. &amp; M. - had their version of the Racetrack design. They differed slightly in the choices of colors and texture of the glazes. Caltiles.com has a great comparison of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/?p=275\">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":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taylor-tilery","category-tile-tables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","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=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395,"href":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}