Studio: international art (65.1915)

Studio-Talk

STONEWARE MADE FOR THE ROYAL COPENHAGEN
PORCELAIN MANUFACTORY BY P. NORSTROM : BRONZE
MOUNTING BY G. THYLSTRUP

COPENHAGEN.—Sculpture, like other
arts, lends itself with good effect to
satire and caricature, only it is not very
often applied in this direction. The
Swedish sculptor, Mr. S. Boberg, however, though
in reality, I believe, a most serious artist, occasionally
indulges his chisel and gives it freer scope, with
cleverly humorous results, and our two illustrations
show him in this vein. The group of English
tourists is amusing and quite good-natured in its
intention ; the figures are perhaps a little traditional,
more in accordance with a somewhat stereotyped
continental conception than with the real models,
but they are free from that grotesque exagggeration
to which the caricaturist is so prone. In the other
group the effect of the sight of the first motor-car
on Swedish peasantry is cleverly depicted.

G. B.

In addition to the beautiful porcelain for which
the Royal Porcelain Manufactory of Copenhagen
has acquired a universal reputation, its glazed stone-
ware productions, of which some attractive examples
are shown in the accompanying illustrations, well
merit the attention of connoisseurs and collectors.
At the hands of Mr. Peter Norstrom, an artist of
great skill and with a thorough knowledge of
ceramic processes, these wares have assumed a

great diversity of form and decorative effect and all
of them bear the impress of the artist’s individuality.
Some of the pieces shown are furnished with bronze
mountings which in no way clash with the beauty
of the pottery but on the contrary serve to enhance
the attractiveness of the pieces to which they
belong. They are the work of a talented metal-
worker, Mr. Thylstrup.

HRISTIANIA.—The water-colour and
etching by Mr. William Peters here
reproduced, are not the first examples
of that artist’s work to appear in these
pages, some very interesting drawings of Norwegian
coast scenery having been reproduced with a brief
letter on the subject a few years ago. Mr. Peters
has for some years held the responsible position of
Head Master of the Royal School of Arts and
Crafts in Christiania, his native city, whither his
father, who claimed to be English by descent,
migrated from Mecklenburg. While still a youth
Mr. Peters was fortunate to come under the notice
of King Charles XV, who took an interest in his
drawings and gave him a private scholarship to
enable him to pursue his studies at the Academy
in Stockholm. Subsequently, after an interval

STONEWARE VASE MADE FOR THE ROYAL COPEN-
HAGEN PORCELAIN MANUFACTORY BY P. NORSTRpM ;
BRONZE MOUNTING BY G. THYLSTRUP

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