Post #305598 by Fres-tiki on Thu, May 10, 2007 10:23 PM

I believe they "are" Chinese. I've seen tiles like the ones pictured in the basement of a store in San Francisco's Chinatown. They were on a shelf with other building decorations like ceramic roof tiles, etc. I've also seen them used in some Western architecture from the twenties. Architect Julia Morgan (Hearst Castle) used them in one of her YWCA building designs.