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American
(1875–1957)
Tile
1910
Earthenware
4 x 4 x 0.75 in.
Gift of George R. and Lorna Wanlass
1987.222
Earnest Batchelder drew his design inspirations from the Middle Ages, Mayan patterns, Byzantine themes, animals, birds, and flora and fauna. These animal tiles are excellent examples of Batchelder’s work, and the themes depicted in them set them apart from the dozens of other tilemakers in Southern California at the time. Batchelder’s single-fire process used engobes, rather than glaze with two firings. Engobes are a colored clay slip pooled in the recesses of the relief design, while the raised surface was wiped clean to be in contrast to the earthenware clay color. At Batchelder’s factory, 175 employees hand molded tiles, and he boasted: “No two tiles the same.” The tiles were hugely popular, and by the 1920s they could be found on walls, floors, and fireplaces in countless homes, hotels, chapels, apartments, shops, restaurants, swimming pools, and businesses from New York City to California.
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