Studio: international art (78.1919)

STUDIO-TALK

VASE WITH GRAPES, BY MME. JO HAHN
LOCHER, AND WHITE PORCELAIN VASE,
BY MLLE. E. HEGERMANN-LINDENCRONE
(Bing & Grondhal’s Porcelain Manufactory,
Copenhagen)

works of large dimensions. His two groups
of figurines—The Vintage and Venus and
the North Wind—prove this. 0 0

Again, there is a contrast between the
virile art of M. Nielsen and that of Mme.
Jo Hahn Locher and Miles. Hegermann-
Lindencrone and F. Garde, in which
naturally the characteristics are more femi-
nine and delicate. The vases to which
the names of the first two are attached—
these vases composed of clear-cut, ajoure
flowers, executed with the tenderest care in
every detail, in white porcelain lightly
tinged in places with subdued tones, or, as
in the case of Mme. Locher's vase with
grapes, relieved with contrasts of bright
fresh colour—have something incomparably
seductive about them ; they are floral fan-
tasies in which a quite Japanese love of
nature mingles with an entirely Western
understanding of things and of the joy
which these things”give. 000

Mme. Locher is, moreover, the inventor
of an original and novel process of decorat-
ing porcelain which consists in giving to
masses of black enamel a setting of silver
threads. Amid white foliage these flowers
of black enamel with their silver cloisons
look very charming indeed. 0 0

Brief as these notes must necessarily be,
I should reproach myself if I omitted to
mention in them the very interesting work
of Mile. F. Garde and M. Einar Honsen;
and the tastefully designed compositions of
M. Achton Friis. I have seen certain vases
by the last named which compel attention
as real poems charged with imagination
and a beauty delightfully northern in
character. 0000a
To conclude, the dominant traits of the
wares we have been discussing remain the
same as for the past twenty years or more.
All these artists are endowed with a fine
imagination, which, however, never loses

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