DOI Heft:
No. 179 (January, 1912)
DOI Artikel:A gallery of oriental rugs
DOI Artikel:An interesting ceramic exhibition
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43448#0438
Ceramic Exhibition
TYPICAL EXHIBITS IN A RECENT CERAMIC EXHIBITION IN CHICAGO
Mohammedan green. On the floor near it lies a
seventeenth-century Koula rug, of sapphire blue.
The rug shown on the preceding page is a mar-
velous sixteenth-century Koula prayer rug. This
variety of rug takes its name from the town of
Koula, a section which has produced one of the
six types of rug which has made Asia Minor
famous for its weaving. The particular inter-
est, in fact, attaching to Mr. Ballard’s collec-
tion of rugs is that, with the instincts and motives
of The true collector who is also a connoisseur, he
has assembled in his gallery only such rugs as
fulfill the highest standards and traditions of the
several types which they represent.
4 N INTERESTING CERAMIC EXHI-
/\ BITION
x Ik The second annual exhibition of
hand-painted chinaware recently held
by the Burley & Tyrrell Company showed,
among other things, the widespread interest in
mineral painting, and brought forth an unusual
quantity of really clever work.
The exhibition was a competitive one in that
there were four prizes offered, and that entries
were invited from all the mineral painters of the
United States, with a view to offering encourage-
ment and inspiration to both amateurs and ex-
perts in the art.
An interesting method of awarding
the prizes was inaugurated by those
who had charge of the committee, the
idea being to stimulate public interest
and to determine in more or less ac-
curate way the trend of popular taste
in these matters. Every visitor was
supplied with a voting card, to be de-
posited in a ballot box upon leaving.
The four prizes were assigned for first
and second honors in two classes.
These classes consisted of the broad
divisions of decorative work into de-
signs conventional and designs natu-
ralistic.
The exhibition as a whole was even
more enthusiastically contributed to
than the first, which was held last
year, and those who were instrument-
al in arranging the exhibit are to be
warmly congratulated, and to be
urged to make the show an established
annual event.
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TYPICAL EXHIBITS IN A RECENT CERAMIC EXHIBITION IN CHICAGO
Mohammedan green. On the floor near it lies a
seventeenth-century Koula rug, of sapphire blue.
The rug shown on the preceding page is a mar-
velous sixteenth-century Koula prayer rug. This
variety of rug takes its name from the town of
Koula, a section which has produced one of the
six types of rug which has made Asia Minor
famous for its weaving. The particular inter-
est, in fact, attaching to Mr. Ballard’s collec-
tion of rugs is that, with the instincts and motives
of The true collector who is also a connoisseur, he
has assembled in his gallery only such rugs as
fulfill the highest standards and traditions of the
several types which they represent.
4 N INTERESTING CERAMIC EXHI-
/\ BITION
x Ik The second annual exhibition of
hand-painted chinaware recently held
by the Burley & Tyrrell Company showed,
among other things, the widespread interest in
mineral painting, and brought forth an unusual
quantity of really clever work.
The exhibition was a competitive one in that
there were four prizes offered, and that entries
were invited from all the mineral painters of the
United States, with a view to offering encourage-
ment and inspiration to both amateurs and ex-
perts in the art.
An interesting method of awarding
the prizes was inaugurated by those
who had charge of the committee, the
idea being to stimulate public interest
and to determine in more or less ac-
curate way the trend of popular taste
in these matters. Every visitor was
supplied with a voting card, to be de-
posited in a ballot box upon leaving.
The four prizes were assigned for first
and second honors in two classes.
These classes consisted of the broad
divisions of decorative work into de-
signs conventional and designs natu-
ralistic.
The exhibition as a whole was even
more enthusiastically contributed to
than the first, which was held last
year, and those who were instrument-
al in arranging the exhibit are to be
warmly congratulated, and to be
urged to make the show an established
annual event.
LXXX