Studio: international art (82.1921)

STUDIO-TALK

FIG. 6. POLYCHROME TILE, DUTCH
EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

the Delft pottery industry attained the
highest perfection. Simultaneously with
blue, violet was employed in the form
of manganese oxide, and some tiles of
superb quality are met with in this colour,
as, for instance, the one with a sailing ship,
shown in fig. i (p. 160). a a 0
In Holland increasing interest is being

FIG. 7. BLUE TILE, DUTCH
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

shown in these old tiles. The literature of
the subject, formerly very scanty, has
grown in a remarkable way, and modern
art is making more and more use of these
ceramic productions of the past. Various
public and private collections have helped
in no small measure towards this growing
appreciation, and notably that of Mr.

FIG. 8. POLYCHROME TILE
DUTCH, SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

178

(Collection of Mr. Eelco M. Vis, Amsterdam)

FIG. 9. POLYCHROME
TILE, DUTCH, CA. l6oO