The New York Times features clé tiles in a January 2013 feature titled "Tile Echoes of an Ancient Civilization." The collection featured is by Forrest Lesch-Middelton, a potter in Petaluma, Calif., who "makes ceramics that look like the products of an ancient civilization whose people proudly insisted on being buried with their dishware. "The surfaces are mottled, the decorations irregular and the tones earthy siennas and fawns, Mr. Lesch-Middelton invented a technique for transferring …