International studio (18.1902/1903)

mind in decorntive art. The wood in its natural
coiour is carved with conventionaiised ftowers. A
dining room by the same hrm shows a rich but
heavy use of wood carving, well executed, and the
breakfast room is ingenious and pleasing; the treat-
ment of marine subjects is even poetical.
The most important Itaiian industry is pottery of
many kinds. It has been carried on very con-
tinuously since the time of the delia Robbias. The
constant demand of foreign purchasers has kept up
the production of more or less good work of the
kind, and the hne old shapes have been perenniaily


STAINED GLASS BY O. BELTRAMI


PAKEL BY DOMEKICO TRENTACOSTE

reproduced. In Itaiy, as in other countries, the
coarser kind of earthenware iends itseif best to the
modern taste for effective coiour in pottery ; the
lustres originaiiy produced by the viilage potter, so
far as his means of firing them aiiowed, are now
appiied to artistic pieces in the town factories.
Conte Vincento Giustiniani was the Arst to check
inartistic copying and encourage original design
and colouring. Capitai examples of his ware were
exhibited at the Paris ipoo Exhibition, and
attempts are now being made to adapt earthen-
ware plaques and paneis, with plain or iridescent
glazes, to the decoration of interiors; for in-
stance, large pictured panels, as weil as decora-
tive tiies for iarders and bathrooms. The old-
'established factory of the Ginori, in Fiorence, has
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