DOI Heft:
No. 130 (December, 1907)
DOI Artikel:Some recent developments in the pottery ware of the Martin Brothers
DOI Artikel:Oldford, T.: The paintings and pastels of Isobelle Dods-Withers
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28253#0131
I sob elle Dods-JVithers
Dutch potters have practised it to a limited extent,
but no work has been produced in the West of this
character to compare in excellence with that of the
Yatsushiro potters. Figs, n to 16 are types of
this class made by the Martin Brothers, and they
have the merit of being quite original in conception.
The other examples here illustrated are selected to
show a few more of the many varieties of form and
treatment, and help to display the makers’ power of
invention and diversity of treatment.
One is apt, without careful examination, to fail
to give full credit to the potter for the laborious
and skilful manipulation necessary to the successful
production of Mishima decoration. The Martin
Brothers have been singularly happy in their
efforts in this direction, and their departure in
style from all previous examples is most com-
mendable. This inlaid work is open to numerous
variations and developments, and there will be no
necessity for them in future years to repeat their
earlier successes. And of this there need be no
fear, if they continue to work upon the admirable
lines they have hitherto followed.
The Martins have an excellent plan of incising
in the foot or back of each piece their name and
the date of its production. One may thus trace
the special successes of each year, and all spurious
imitations may be readily detected. By the avoid-
ance of imitation and repetition, and by the faculty
of invention and knowledge of the possibilities of
his craft, there is no reason why the potter should
not in the future, as he has done upon rare
occasions in the past, rise to the greatest distinction
as an artist, and we cannot but feel that the
Martin Brothers are on the right road to such
an eminence.
Our thanks are due to the Artificers’ Guild,
Maddox Street, London, for their permission to
illustrate the examples reproduced in Figs, i, 2, 16,
24 and 26 from their varied collection.
HE PAINTINGS AND PASTELS
OF ISOBELLE DODS-WITHERS.
Artists in this decade have lived in fear
of the word picturesque—but there is a new
“THE CASTLE OF CCEUR DE LION”
BY ISOBELLE A. DODS-WITHERS
US
Dutch potters have practised it to a limited extent,
but no work has been produced in the West of this
character to compare in excellence with that of the
Yatsushiro potters. Figs, n to 16 are types of
this class made by the Martin Brothers, and they
have the merit of being quite original in conception.
The other examples here illustrated are selected to
show a few more of the many varieties of form and
treatment, and help to display the makers’ power of
invention and diversity of treatment.
One is apt, without careful examination, to fail
to give full credit to the potter for the laborious
and skilful manipulation necessary to the successful
production of Mishima decoration. The Martin
Brothers have been singularly happy in their
efforts in this direction, and their departure in
style from all previous examples is most com-
mendable. This inlaid work is open to numerous
variations and developments, and there will be no
necessity for them in future years to repeat their
earlier successes. And of this there need be no
fear, if they continue to work upon the admirable
lines they have hitherto followed.
The Martins have an excellent plan of incising
in the foot or back of each piece their name and
the date of its production. One may thus trace
the special successes of each year, and all spurious
imitations may be readily detected. By the avoid-
ance of imitation and repetition, and by the faculty
of invention and knowledge of the possibilities of
his craft, there is no reason why the potter should
not in the future, as he has done upon rare
occasions in the past, rise to the greatest distinction
as an artist, and we cannot but feel that the
Martin Brothers are on the right road to such
an eminence.
Our thanks are due to the Artificers’ Guild,
Maddox Street, London, for their permission to
illustrate the examples reproduced in Figs, i, 2, 16,
24 and 26 from their varied collection.
HE PAINTINGS AND PASTELS
OF ISOBELLE DODS-WITHERS.
Artists in this decade have lived in fear
of the word picturesque—but there is a new
“THE CASTLE OF CCEUR DE LION”
BY ISOBELLE A. DODS-WITHERS
US