{"id":567,"date":"2014-09-12T17:44:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T00:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/?p=567"},"modified":"2015-03-07T20:34:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T04:34:56","slug":"hippo-tile-plaque-by-bertil-vallien-and-hal-fromhold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/?p=567","title":{"rendered":"Hippo Tile Plaque by Bertil Vallien and Hal Fromhold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140606-IMG_4196.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"title_image alignleft wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140606-IMG_4196.jpg\" alt=\"Hippo Tile Plaque by Bertil Vallien and Hal Fromhold\" width=\"350\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140606-IMG_4196.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140606-IMG_4196-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>This most adorable hippo was made in the Los Angeles studio of a ceramic artist Hal Fromhold in 1961-1963. I am not quite clear on the details but it seems that Bertil Vallien, who later became a rather famous glass artist, began his career as a ceramicist. In 1961 he had a fellowship at Fromhold's studio and created a series of these whimsical plaques: hippo, horse &amp; bird, horse &amp; rider, lion. I've seen a few of these so far, and each one has a different color scheme. I don't think there were too many of them made.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>My plaque-tile is in excellent condition and has not just one but three Fromhold studio marks!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dimensions: 15 1\/4\" x 11\"<\/li>\n<li>Acquired: San Francisco, California, May 2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140606-IMG_4197.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"body_image alignleft wp-image-569\" src=\"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140606-IMG_4197-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"Hippo Tile Plaque by Bertil Vallien and Hal Fromhold\" width=\"150\" height=\"111\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140606-IMG_4197-300x221.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140606-IMG_4197.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This most adorable hippo was made in the Los Angeles studio of a ceramic artist Hal Fromhold in 1961-1963. I am not quite clear on the details but it seems that Bertil Vallien, who later became a rather famous glass &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/?p=567\">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":[35,34,25],"tags":[39,41],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bertil-vallien","category-hal-fromhold","category-single-tiles","tag-birds","tag-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","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=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.curiousclay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}