International studio (31.1907)

New York Society of Keramic Arts


CERAMICS

BY MISS ELIZABETH MASON

bined orange lustre and gold. Her designs were
usually of nature forms. A high vase had tall
lilies, and a soup bowl and teacup and saucer had a
conventionalised pattern resembling leaves. This
was in white and gold. A bowl in blue and gold
was of good design, and so was a plate decorated
with a geometrical pattern in blue and brown. A
prettily tinted tea service in pale fawn with gold-leaf
pattern came from Miss Margaret Armstrong, and
gold colouring was shown by Miss Minna Mienke,
on a chop plate with gold and salmon border, and
some blue cups. Miss Mary M. Hicks had grey
ramikins trimmed with blue flowers, and a pitcher
with a border of lemons among leaves. A tall vase
by Miss Hicks had long grasses coming from the
base, on a background of red. Mrs. E. M. Rollins
had some odd colour designs in dark greens and blues
on a tea-set and chop dish. Mrs. C. W. Rosegrant
showed good colour combinations in red berries and
green leaves on light brown, and on bowls, one with
abstract design in several colours and one of black
on cream.
Mrs. J. Hibler made use of high lustre gold and
yellow brown lustre with fine effect on a salad or
fruit bowl, which had a pattern of oranges and
green leaves around it, and a tea-jar with a border of
quaint little houses and trees, whose cover is plain
gold. Mrs. S. N. Waterfield gets her effects in pale
colors, violet, light blue and grey, with morning-
glories, trees and leaf designs. Mrs. S. V. Culp,
whose place was burned at the time of the San

Francisco earthquake, sent from her reestablished
kiln at Berkeley a tall vase in varied greens. Miss
Frances H. Marquand, of New York, had a salad
bowl with mayonnaise bowl and plate, the set with
a deep grey border showing off an overborder of
nasturtiums and leaves.
Farge plates by Miss Henrietta Barclay Paist
had broad colouring and cleverly drawn designs of
goldfish, dolphins and flying geese, and delicate
touches of black with grey tints were on a coffee-pot
by Mrs. E. B. Proctor.
Examples of enamelling work on copper were dis-
played in a separate case, where Otto Uhlman, of
Taunton, Mass., had some delicate and beautiful
painting, showing fine lustre, of a head of Beethoven
and a picture of “The Princess and the Frog,” of
Grimm’s fairy tale. Some exquisitely tinted minia-
tures were shown in the same case, and two neck-
laces of silver, set with paintings of flowers on metal,
and a larger painting of a parrot with gorgeous plu-
mage set in a frame. Artists represented here are
Miss Helen Keeling Mills, Miss Catherine Folsom
Jamison and John C. Gillet.
A number of potters, of whom several belong to
the Society of Keramic Arts, also exhibited. Some
pieces from Charles Volkmar displayed his recent
work in the new French “Flamme” style, now in
great vogue in Paris. Two bottle vases, done by
the reduced copper process, had a natural glaze in
light green, but by the introduction of certain gases
in the kiln, the surface had become mottled or

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