The Studio yearbook of decorative art (1906)

Porcelain and Earthenware

very low relief from the designs of Mr. C. F. A. —very often with detail which cannot be called

Voysey; one of them being a reversing pattern ornament at all. The veraciously depicted spray

based upon the net principle. of natural flowers, however often it be repeated or

Another design, by Mr. John Chambers (p. 227), spaced at set intervals over the ceramic surface,

in the form of upright slabs, suitable for fireplace remains a botanical study still. Its form must be

surrounds, is based on the peacock-feather. Of conventionalised and translated into the language

the three remaining specimens, all floral designs, of ornament before it is fit for applied decoration,

one (p. 233) is by the last-named artist, while two Again, all such stale and hackneyed devices as

(p. 226), the "Feather Leaf" and the "Iris" painted representations of fluttering ribbons to

respectively, are by Mr. Lewis F. Day. suspend artificial festoons, true-lovers' knots, and

With regard tD stone-ware and other kinds of imitations of basket-work, whether modelled or

crockery for breakfast, dinner and tea services, the painted, ought to be rejected. What should be is

common fault is to be over-charged with ornament of the nature of a border round the edge, as in

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