Studio: international art (83.1922)

STUDIO-TALK

SILVER COFFEE SET. DE-
SIGNED AND EXECUTED
BY OMAR RAMSDEN

the group of panels he exhibited at the re-
cent exhibition of the British Institute of
Industrial Art in the Victoria and Albert
Museum. Colour reproduction on paper,
it is hardly necessary to say, can give only
an approximate idea of the rich effect of the
glass seen against the light, but if our illus-
tration falls short in this respect, it ade-
quately reveals another characteristic of
this artist's work in this medium—the un-
conventionality of design, a a a
Miss Jessie M. King's versatile talent has

lately taken a new turn in the direction of
pottery decoration, and the three pieces we
illustrate on this page represent some of her
first experiments. The designs, derived
from fairy tales, are painted on the ware in
the ** biscuit " stage, and the artist finds it
a very pleasing ground to work on from the
way in which it sucks up the colour when
applied before the glaze is added. The
three pieces are from the pottery of Messrs.
David Methven at Kirkcaldy, and one of
them—the jar with a design from “ The

POTTERY WITH UNDERGLAZE
PAINTING BY JESSIE M. KING

(From Messrs. David Methven’s
Pottery, Kirkcaldy)

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