International studio (61.1917)

The Keramic Society of Greater New York

dishes and silver candlesticks rested, relieved by
bits of contrasting colour in decorations upon
the china and by the centre bowl of fruit.
Far from the peasant or even the cottage type
is the totally different exhibit at another place.
Here the colours range from a warm blue to a
magenta, the linens being in violet edged with a
silk border, embroidered in a contrasting shade.
Upon pewter dishes the reflections of colour are
varied and most pleasing, the whole giving an im-
pression both rich and refined.
It will be easily seen that there is great variety
of effect, although each table presents a unity, a
colour-harmony, in which dishes, linens and all

colour, might have in the breakfast room of a
cottage or as a tea-table upon an enclosed porch,
amid vines with sunlight flitting through.
Beside the tables there were shown many sets
for tea or breakfast upon a tray suited to their
design. These also had appropriate linens, and
perhaps accompanying details of vase or candle,
as carefully thought out as the larger displays.
One library table was shown with Chinese deco-
ration upon the cloth but with a fine colour-rela-
tion of lilacs, blues and greys.
Much of the work was done under the direction
of Mr. Marshall Fry or from suggestions in his
class. Three of the tables are, however, the work


Courtesy American Museum of Nalziral History, New York

CENTRE BOWL AND VASES DESIGNED AND

EXECUTED BY DOROTHEA WARREN O’HARA

details have been carefully considered. The linens
used are sometimes in the form of table-cloths,
it may be in sections embroidered together, but
quite as often they are used as runners or as a
centre-piece and plate doyleys. Much ingenuity
has been shown in the embroidered edges or
bands, the space being broken frequently by a
tiny square or a dot of some contrasting color,
and the introduction thus, of a stitch of orange
or of emerald green, can be most engaging, as
discovered in a second look. The motives used
upon the china itself are mostly bands of colour
or flowers or birds, very conventionally and deco-
ratively treated. One can easily imagine the
charm which one of these tables, glowing with

of the president of the society, Mrs. Dorothea
Warren O’Hara, who has had work purchased by
the Museum of Natural History and by the Mu-
seum at Tokio, Japan. Other names are: Mrs.
Arthur Weaver, Lilian B. Smith, Elizabeth M.
Roth, Nina Hatfield, Alice Dalimore, Venicy M.
Barlow, Mrs. Unger, Mrs. Barker, Alma Krafft
and Clara Wakeman. The tables were separated
from each other and from the wall behind them
by means of lattice screens of a creamy tone,
sometimes having a trailing vine upon them. By
this means every table became a separate ex-
hibit and at the same time the uniformity of the
screens served to bring all the groups together
and give unity to the exhibition as a whole.

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