Description: All tiles are useful and decorative on the table. They are used to place hot teapots or dishes on to protect wood table tops. Tiles have 5 different shapes: round–square–hexagonal–octagonal–chamfered corners. None of the 5 different tiles we have seen, have rain cloud borders with one exception. That exception is a 7″ large round tile possibly because there was more space to add the border. Round and square tiles are more common than the hexagonal, octagonal and chamfered corner tiles thus, a little less expensive.

The square tiles shown here range in size from 6″ square to 3 7/8″ square. Their thickness ranges from 3/16″ to 1/4″. One picture shows the three tiles on top of each other as a size comparison. The two larger tiles have glaze on the entire  bottoms and the smallest has only a glazed “X”.  As with many Canton forms there may be larger and smaller examples than shown here. The other four tile shapes have separate listings.