QX #109/159, #171b, #172c

_{The tiles in my childhood home in Beijing, 2020.12.26 ⇒}

Chee Hsin cement tiles were most familiar to me, because I grew up with them. Chee Hsin not only tiled my childhood home but many my relatives’ as well.

This pattern, as usual, had two sets of numbers on the Sample Book: #109 and  #159.

^{In 2016}

Seen elsewhere:

1. Negombo, Sri Lanka
2. BJ 北京内城
3. Shaoxing Lu 侵权
4. Yongjia?
5. Dhar Mann
6. Mei Lanfang’s birth place
7. Red Cross 红会医院 in Hangzhou
8. San Jose or lookalike?
9. Java – Yogyakarta 日惹
10. Soul of Saigon, Vietnam
11. near Zhang Xueliang’s, Tianjin
12. St Joseph’s Cathedral 西开教堂  Tianjin
13. 不欺堂范 Fan Zhongyan
14. Tianjin 圣心会教堂 #109
15. Sarasota #109
16. Chen Cihong 陈慈黉 #109, #171
17. Tianjin 易兆云旧居 #109
18. Xia residence 夏氏宅 #109
19. Pan residence 潘氏宅 trim #171
20. Maoming N Road 茂名北路, trim #171
    
21. Java Island, Indonesia #109
22. HomeDepot

… similar (?)

• Floor & Decor and Tile Shop
• Merola (?) in Sarasota
• FB
• Darmstadt
• Weston, CT

The central tile’s spec:  7^7/8 square, 1″ thick and 3.85 lb in weight.

Border/trim tiles: I don’t remember seeing them at our homes, and my cousins don’t remember seeing them either. However, Mei Lanfang’s former home used the trim. It seems Shanghai utilized the trims more often than Beijing.

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Seen elsewhere: mostly in Shanghai, courtesy of Feng Guoyin 冯国鄞.

      

More  QX #109/#159, 171b, 172c and 121b. The white cat was by Katya Knyazeva

    

and … here in US, or on the Internet …