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I wish they had a website. I'd like to drool over some close-ups.

This place is fantastic and the owner has an vast amount of information about all the tiles. True some are rather pricy but there are some very well priced tiles that are great for smaller projects as most tiles are in limited amounts.

If only they had a website. I have gone to LA just to go to this store again. The tiles are expensive, but they are well priced for antique tiles. Scott knows a lot and is very nice. I highly reccommend this shop.
Amy

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Very nice store, unfotuntely however, does not have or provide provenance for any of the jardiniere and floor vases.This is a tricky matter, especially in Los Angeles, as 95% of all of these giant pots offered for sale are stolen.

Dude, there's not a dealer in the country that will give you a provenance on a porch jar. Stolen? Probably. I have a friend whose mom owned these court-apartments in Echo Park, you know the kind...with super glazed oil jars on the front stoop. One day ,when he was at work, these dudes show up in hard hats and orange safety vests,and ripped off all 10 of the jars....talk about brazen. Clean cut white yuppie guys. But as for the Wells fellow, he's an honest dude,and you wont find a more erudite ,informed , and helpfull authority on the subject of tiles.

Dude, there's not a dealer in the country that will give you a provenance on a porch jar. Stolen? Probably. I have a friend whose mom owned these court-apartments in Echo Park, you know the kind...with super glazed oil jars on the front stoop. One day ,when he was at work, these dudes show up in hard hats and orange safety vests,and ripped off all 10 of the jars....talk about brazen. Clean cut white yuppie guys, howdja like that??? But as for the Wells fellow, he's an honest dude,and you wont find a more erudite ,informed , and helpfull authority on the subject of tiles.

This comment is directed to Rene and Darby. You are painting the matter with broad generalized strokes...you fellows have to differentiate between oil jars and porch jars. The smaller OIL JARS, and by smaller I mean ususally smaller than 17 inches, are almost never ever stolen. They are meant to be used indoors as art objects or vases so when they are sold, they are sold between original owner and buyer, or from collector to collector.Their provenance is free and clear.The larger porch jars, the one you will find on stoops, porches and gardens, I would say, heck yeah, across the country, across the board, in every state city and hamlet, ARE stolen for the most part. Darby, I can feel your friend's pain. My father owned an apartment house in Hollywood California with two beautiful matching 5 foot tall aqua blue porch jars on the front stoop. One day when he took us all to dinner, we returned to find them GONE!!! A few weeks later , however, we found one of the jars in an antique shop in West Los Angeles. Do you know what the dealer had priced the jar at??? $1200...I kid you not!!!!! But please fellows...its the giant jars that get ripped off, not the little ones....gotta get that straight, a man's reputation is at stake.

Darby, you are right on with the comment on these crooks being "Clean cut white yuppie guys".
The cops arrested two cleancut yuppy guys stealing my mother's urns from her front yard in upstate New York about a year ago. They turned out to be pickers for antique dealers, and it was eventually dicovered they had been responsible for hundreds of such thefts on the east coast, including dozens of porch jars from Florida.

Wells is located in Echo Park, not Silverlake.