International studio (25.1905)

SOCIETY OF KERAMIC ARTS EXHIBITION
EXAMPLES OF VOLKMAR, GRI7EBY, ALFRED AND WHEATLEY POTTERY

scape by moonlight, with the opportunities for
colour afforded in a slack sail over reflecting water,
making use therein of vivid blues.
Contrasting stongly with the general choice of
form was the teaset decorated by Mrs. Sara Wood
Safford, with its sharp and slender curves, treated
with a sparing but deft use of colour. Mrs. Anna
B. Leonard showed a number of service plates, and
various table dishes, some of them displaying a
facile adaptation of historic ornament. One of the
best of her designs was that of a green border with
a simple leaf motive for a large plate. She also sent
some charming work in gold and ivory. Some most
interesting plates and tiles were contributed by Miss
Minke, who also finds the decorative value of the
Jack-in-the-pulpit plant. Quite different in feeling
from most of the work on view was the rather more
intricate colouring of a vase by Miss Laura B.
Overly. Space prevents the mention that it would
be interesting to continue of the many excellent
specimens of work put forward by such trained
hands as Mrs. S. E. Price, Mrs. Crilley Wilson,
Mrs. Hibler, Miss Catherine Sinclair, Miss Allen,
Mrs. Ehlers, Mrs. N. Stranahan, Mrs. L. Vance
Phillips, who showed an interesting portrait head,
and a number of others.
Among the potters, in addition to the case of the
Robineau work, the Rookwood was, of course, fully
represented; the Volkmar, from which there were
on view a series of tiles, fine in colour and of good
design, together with some vases of dull restrained
tone, one of which, as will be seen in our illustration,
shows an interesting study of the duck on the wing;,
the Grueby, with some particularly good work by

Miss Hoagland, and, among
others, the Alfred, Wheatley
and the Van Briggle of Colo-
rado. The Trenton School of
Design, through George Lewis
Bennett, sent some bowls with
chaste and delicate ornament
in white. An interesting ex-
ample of a return to a primi-
tive method were the pieces of
salt glaze by Miss Jordan, of
Portland, Me.; and a sug-
gestive use of local material
came from the Newcombe
School at New Orleans in the
fern dish with alligator mo-
tive, by Miss Mazie T. Ryan.
The keramic workers of the
lower Mississippi must cer-
tainly have tried their hand
at the characteristic mossed cypress of the region,
which would seem to be particularly inviting for a
bold flooding on of colour and would have been
well worth seeing.


. SOCIETY OF KERAMIC ARTS
OVERGLAZE BY MISS MASON

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