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Pottery Co., whose artist, Jacques Sicard, contributes a splendid 

 luster tablet; the Pope-(josser China Co.; the Roseville Pottery Co.; 

 D. F. Haynes & Co. ; the Warwick China Co. ; the Goodwin Pottery 

 Co.; the International China Co.; the Colonial Co.; the Willets 

 Manufacturing Co. : the A. AV. Eoblin Co. ; the Sevres China Co. ; the 

 Homer Laughlin China Co.; Sophie Newcomb College; the C. S. 

 Thompson Pottery Co.; the Edwin Bennett Pottery Co.; the Xorse 

 Pottery Co.; the Van Briggle Pottery Co.; the Gates Pottery Co.; 

 J. S. Taft & Co.; and the Wheatley Pottery Co. A section of the 

 southeast wall case contains specimens of the earlier Pookwood 

 pottery, the Clifton art pottery, the Grueby Faience Co., the 

 Brower Pottery, and Mayer Bros. The collection of contempo- 

 raneous American pottery is interesting but scarcely representative. 

 It shows, however, that American potters are producing specimens 

 of great dignity and worth, which will increase in value and histori- 

 cal importance as records of art. 



The south side of the gallery also holds a small exhibit of American 

 glass, notably a complete exj^osition of the manufacture of cut glass 

 from the Libbey Glass Co. ; a quantity of cut, engraved, and other- 

 wise decorated glass from the Dithridge Flint Glass Co.; fine art 

 pieces from the Union Glass Co. ; Pomona glass from the New Eng- 

 land Glass Works ; specimens from the Fostoria Glass Co. ; and won- 

 derful examples of Tiffany favrile glass. Two candle shades of 

 English glass about one century old, the gift of Mrs. E. L. Mc- 

 Adory, are shown in a case on the west side of the gallery. Above 

 the wall case are displayed a glazed terra-cotta plaque attributed 

 to Luca della Robbia, lanterns and vases of Japanese work, Cyprian 

 vases, etc., and at the entrance to the gallery are a large Doulton 

 vase and an Italian terra-cotta fountain. 



Exhibited elsewhere than in the gallery, but belonging to the 

 division of ceramics, are a number of pieces mostly of large size and 

 some of considerable value. Among them are the following: A pair 

 of centennial memorial vases, presented by the Messrs. Haviland, of 

 Limoges, France, in 1876; an allegorical mosaic, composed of 900 

 tiles of Limoges faience, representing the genius of man dominating 

 and utilizing fire and water, designed by Bracquemond and made b}' 

 the Messrs. Haviland; a pulpit and font, and a pair of sculptured 

 tablets, in relief, representing Christ in Gethsemane and the cruci- 

 fixion, all in terra cotta, made by H. Doulton & Co., of Lambeth, 

 England ; a mosaic reredos by Minton, Hollins & Co., of Stoke-upon- 

 Trent, England; and one of the famous peachblow vases and a 

 celadon porcelain vase of the Yung Cheng period (1723-1735), 

 gifts of the Chinese Government. 



