Chee Hsin tiles: the center tile number is #116, the trim or border tile is #121 or #171. The specs are measured 77/8 square, 1″…
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Chee Hsin cement tile by the Pottery: QX #115 or #165, from the house at 684 Yuyuan Road in Shanghai. Photo courtesy: Feng Guoyin 冯国鄞 ⇒ This three-story…
Chee Hsin Pottery produced two major types of tiles: cement and ceramic. Each pattern had flat and flute surfaces, which resulted in two different numbers.…
Chee Hsin (Qixin in pinyin) was initially founded by Tang Jingxing in 1889 in Tangshan, an industrial city one hundred miles west of Beijing. It…
Chee Hsin Pottery‘s cement tiles. The first two photos are courtesy of Feng Guoyin 冯国鄞. The central tiles were #105/#106/#125, and the border/trim tiles were #113b or…
Chee Hsin Pottery‘s cement tiles: the central, border/trim and corner tiles, measured in 7 7/8″ square, weighted 3. 85 pound and 1′ thick. #110, the central…
Chee Hsin Pottery‘s cement tiles. The border/trim was #121b or #171b. The central tiles were and 109/159, which is identical to my home, as well as…