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white egg-shell ware, to which they are constantly adding new 

 designs, is another specialty of these works, and the company is 

 now competing successfully with the Dresden and other foreign 

 factories in supplying white art porcelain to decorators. In form 

 their pieces are graceful 

 and artistic, one of which 

 is represented in Fig. 22. 



They also employ a 

 number of competent art- 

 ists to decorate their art 

 goods, many of which are 

 reproductions of the char- 

 acteristic shell and coral 

 forms of the Irish works. 

 Fig. 23 represents a large 

 Belleek vase with open- 

 work handles and chrys- 

 anthemum decoration in 

 delicate tints on an ivory, 

 gold- stippled ground. 



The Ceramic Art Com- 

 pany, of which Mr. Jona- 

 than Coxon, Sr., is presi- 

 dent and Mr. Walter S. 

 Lenox secretary and treas- 

 urer, was established in 

 Trenton in 1889. The first i 

 named gentleman became 

 superintendent at the Ott 

 and Brewer Company's 

 works after Bromley left, 

 and the latter was former- 

 ly in charge of their deco- 

 rating department. Here 

 they learned the processes 

 of manufacturing Belleek. 

 Although they have at 

 present but one ware kiln 

 and two decorating kilns, they are rapidly making a name by 

 their constantly increasing patterns, many of which are exquisitely 

 conceived and show the touch of a thorough artist. They have 

 procured the best designers and painters that can be found and 

 employ both the overglaze and underglaze processes in decorating. 

 Their egg-shell ware is also furnished in the white to decorators. 

 Fig, 24 shows one of these undecorated pieces, a graceful lily- 

 shaped cup and saucer. In addition to vases and table pieces, they 



