{"id":448,"date":"2014-05-31T22:44:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T05:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/?p=448"},"modified":"2014-06-03T17:23:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T00:23:54","slug":"spanish-tile-by-casa-gonzales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/?p=448","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Geometric Tile by Casa Gonz\u00e1les"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140108-IMG_3902_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"title_image alignleft wp-image-474\" src=\"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140108-IMG_3902_3.jpg\" alt=\"Spanish Tile by Casa Gonz\u00e1les\" width=\"350\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140108-IMG_3902_3.jpg 504w, http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140108-IMG_3902_3-157x300.jpg 157w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>This cuenca tile, most likely made in the 1920s, is another great example of Spanish ceramic arts. It has a complex Moorish floral design perfectly executed in bright, saturated glazes. The tile is marked on the back: it was made by Casa Gonz\u00e1les in Seville. Unlike some other tile factories in Seville that have survived for over a century (e.g. Mensaque Rodriguez),\u00a0Casa Gonz\u00e1les is\u00a0no longer in business. Fortunately, there is some information about it\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.retabloceramico.net\/bio2_gonzalezcasa.htm\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a> (in Spanish).<\/p>\n<p>Casa Gonz\u00e1les (also known as Gonz\u00e1les Hermanos) started in 1902 as a family business manufacturing construction materials. A 1917 magazine ad states: \"Brothers Gonz\u00e1lez. Sevilla, mosaic factory (pavements), building materials, sanitary wares, artistic locksmith workshops, plumbing and heating.\"\u00a0The firm also employed a number of potters and ceramic artists who created beautiful\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.retabloceramico.net\/indicep_G_gonzalezcasa.htm\" target=\"_blank\">ceramic altarpieces<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By the 1920s Casa Gonz\u00e1les was one of the most prestigious ceramic firms in Seville. They did much of the tiling for the Plaza de Espa\u00f1a and the Mar\u00eda Luisa Park, the site of the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929 held in Seville. <!--more-->One of the Gonz\u00e1les brothers, Don An\u00edbal Gonz\u00e1lez, was the architect for the Plaza de Espa\u00f1a, where he combined a mix of 1920s Art Deco and Neo-Mud\u00e9jar, neo-Moorish, styles. Tiles were used extensively for the alcoves, fountains, walls, ponds, benches, and more.<\/p>\n<p>The company issued at least two catalogs in the 1920s: Cat\u00e1logo de Azulejos de Estilo Sevillano and Cat\u00e1logo de Azulejos de Estilo Moderno. A library at Harvard has both, and I am hoping to get my hands on them to see if my tile is listed.<\/p>\n<p>The tile is in perfect condition for its age, with a couple of superficial nicks around the borders.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dimensions: 10 3\/4\" x 5 3\/8\"<\/li>\n<li>Acquired: Fresno, California, June 2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140108-IMG_3905_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"body_image alignleft wp-image-475\" src=\"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140108-IMG_3905_3-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"Spanish Tile by Casa Gonz\u00e1les\" width=\"150\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140108-IMG_3905_3-300x157.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140108-IMG_3905_3.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This cuenca tile, most likely made in the 1920s, is another great example of Spanish ceramic arts. It has a complex Moorish floral design perfectly executed in bright, saturated glazes. The tile is marked on the back: it was made &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/?p=448\">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":[18,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-tiles","category-single-tiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","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=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}