Studio: international art (65.1915)

National Competition of Schools of A rt, IQ15

STAINED-WOOD CARD-BOX. BY IRENE F. PARKER (POLY-
TECHNIC INSTITUTE SCHOOL OF ART, MARYLEBONE)

done just now as a decorative motive. Special
mention should be made of the sgraffito pots
from the Wimbledon School of Art, and in
particular two with designs of dancing figures,
by Miss Olive E. M. Hollyer; and two by
Mr. Sidney A. Waye, the best of which was
decorated with a representation of Sir Lancelot
hunting in the woods with Queen Guinevere.

Among the enamels a small panel of a mer-
maid, in tones of blue, blue-green, and gold,
designed for the top of a jewel-box by Miss
Caroline Hall, of Sunderland; and a tiny
enamelled jewel casket, by Mr. Nathan Rosen-
berg, of Birmingham
(Margaret Street), were
attractive ; but the
enamels generally were
weak. Enamel is not
the medium in which
the student should
attempt to execute
ambitious figure sub-
jects. The jewellery
section included good

pendants and chains

tive of its kind, was the panel of tiles representing by Miss Dorothy Ballan-
a Dreadnought steaming through a rough sea, by tine and Mr. Wilfrid L.

Mr. Carlton Rivers, of
Stoke-on-Trent (Han-
ley). A pottery plaque
by Mr. Francis B.

Travers, Stoke-on-Trent
(Burslem), and vases by
Mr. Reco Capey and
Miss Winifred Lees of
the same school ; a
lustre plate with a simple
design in purple by Miss
Henrietta Wright, of
Bournemouth; the de-
signs for the decoration
of porcelain plates by
Miss Alice Lilian Hitch-
cock, of Clapham School
of Art, and the lustre
tiles by Mr. H. W.

Chiverton, of Salford,
all deserved notice.

Some red tiles by Mr.

Harry Hoyle, of Accring-
ton, were capital in
modelling and arrange-
ment, but the heraldic

linn is n linl ■ STAINED-WOOD BLOTTER AND PAPER-KNIFE. BY DORIS E. SAFFERY

i is a little over- (polytechnic institute school of art, marylebone)

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