Vintage California D&M 1928 - 1939 Set Of 4 Sunburst Tiles Mission Arts Crafts 6 "
Item History & Price
Set of four vintage terra cotta sunburst design tiles by D&M of Los Angeles from 1928 - 1939. Nice condition with edge wear, minor chips and scuffs each tile about 6" x 6" x 1/2" thick. Wonderful bright California Mission colors of blue, yellow, green and orange. Sides are bevelled. Does not look like it was ever set.
From Artslant Magazine, "D&M Tile Company was named after John Davies and John McDonald who founded the company in 1928. John ‘Jack’ Davies, a W...elshman, had been apprenticed at the Doulton & Co pottery in London, England before his migration to the US in 1910. Working first on Staten Island, his westward journey took him through Kansas, Missouri, and Spokane, Washington before arriving in Los Angeles to take up a superintendent post at Pacific Clay products. Here he experimented on the glazes and designs that would form the basis of D&M Tiles. His partner John McDonald handled D&M business and sales. D&M’s bright Moorish-inspired tiles were used at The Mission Inn in Riverside, Balboa Park in San Diego and on Grace Line ocean liners of the 1930s. The company weathered the great depression but in 1939 Jack Davies died at the age of 58. Harry Hicks of Hispano-Moresque Tile then acquired D&M’s kilns, inventory and glaze formulas."
Shipping from Hawaii anywhere in the U.S. is $18.
From Artslant Magazine, "D&M Tile Company was named after John Davies and John McDonald who founded the company in 1928. John ‘Jack’ Davies, a W...elshman, had been apprenticed at the Doulton & Co pottery in London, England before his migration to the US in 1910. Working first on Staten Island, his westward journey took him through Kansas, Missouri, and Spokane, Washington before arriving in Los Angeles to take up a superintendent post at Pacific Clay products. Here he experimented on the glazes and designs that would form the basis of D&M Tiles. His partner John McDonald handled D&M business and sales. D&M’s bright Moorish-inspired tiles were used at The Mission Inn in Riverside, Balboa Park in San Diego and on Grace Line ocean liners of the 1930s. The company weathered the great depression but in 1939 Jack Davies died at the age of 58. Harry Hicks of Hispano-Moresque Tile then acquired D&M’s kilns, inventory and glaze formulas."
Shipping from Hawaii anywhere in the U.S. is $18.
