Chee Hsin Tiles 启新砖

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. (Other tiles.)

^{This specimen page ⇑ was from an undated Sample Book, courtesy of Qixin Museum.  95339}

Each pattern/design (QX #) might have central tiles, trim (border) tiles and corner tiles. The colors were made to order.

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The cement tiles 洋灰花砖 They had central, border/trim and corner tiles, which  measured 7^7/8 square, 1″ thick and 3.85 lb in weight.

Tiles at our homes

• My home ^#109/159
  •  seen elsewhere
• Wuyi
• Lily‘s home had three kinds
  • #115/165 ^{8 pointed stars  八角星 8}  
  • #116c & 121b/171b
  • #??

Seen elsewhere in China

• Duan Qirui 段祺瑞 ^#167
• Mei Lanfang ^{#115/165, #173b/#174c}  
• Shen’s Garden 沈家花园 ^{#110  / #170} 
• 愚园路 684 Yuyuan
• An office & power plant  ^{blue & red} 
• TV series 安家  ^{#108/111b/112c, 158/161b/162c} 

More tiles, and from Feng Guoyin 冯国鄞

• 121b/171b, 116/121b
• 113b/163b, 105/106/125
• 110
• 120/121b/122c / 170/171b/172c
• 121/171
• trim 123
• unidentified tiles

Other tiles in the Sample Book:

• 117/167  | 113b/114c
• 126/131b/132c
• 127/129b/130c
• 176/163b/164c
• 105/129b/130c
• 106/113b/114c
• 108/111b/112c | 158/161b/162c

~ Same or similar lookalike tiles seen elsewhere ~

The ceramic tiles. They were also called clinker, and came in sizes of 3″, 3^3/4″, 5^3/4″and 7″ in the shape of square or hexagon.

• hexagon #1071 ^Tangshan
• square #1074 ^{Tangshan, Tianjin} 

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Clinker Tiles 小缸砖 II and IV