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Colored Terra Cotta


The Atlantic Terra Cotta Company
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deepening color as one looks upward. The pat-
tern of the moulding is set figures and conven-
tionalized leaves, and there are glimpses of red in
the background behind the yellows and greens.
Just below the windows are bands of decoration
marking the height of the first floor and in these
the greens and creams and yellows lead down to
the paler tints in the ornaments around the door-
ways.
This design is of ten little cherubs, each set of
ten figures around one of the doorways, and each
cherub alternating with medallion groups of music-
al instruments. The faces of the children are
American, although the poses are classic. One
baby cherub plays a shepherd’s pipe, another plays
the cymbals and a third the tambourine. One
sings from a roll of manuscript, and a fifth from a
book. The leader cherub has an upraised finger,
while with mouth open he issues some order.
Others blow a trumpet and play on castenets, tri-
angle and eolian. The figures are in cream tints
against a brilliant yellow background. The groups
of musical instruments set in the panels between
the figures have the same coloring, cream on yel-
low, the combinations including: drum, banjo,
flageolet and castenets; xylophone, clarinet, flageolet
and cymbals; violin, flageolet, bells and tambourine;
harp, cymbals and bells; mandolin, flageolet and
sleigh bells; cymbals, guitar and flageolet; mandolin,
flageolet and French horn; flageolet, French horn
and guitar; saxaphone, banjo and kettle drum.


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