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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



The Providential Tile Works, of Trenton, make glazed tiles, 

 plain and in relief. At one time tliey experimented in different- 

 colored glazes on the same piece, the raised portions being of a 

 different tint from the ground, and some good results were obtained 

 by this treatment. Underglaze decoration was also employed to 



Fig. 42. — Tile Panel, " Indolence." rrovidenti 



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some extent formerly, and some fine work in that line was pro- 

 duced, but both of these styles have been abandoned as unsuited to 

 the market. The present designer and modeler is Mr. Scott Callow- 

 hill, who came to this country about six years ago from the Royal 

 Worcester Works, England, where, with his brother, Mr. James 

 Callowhill, now of Roslindale, Mass., he had charge of two of the 

 principal decorating-rooms in which the finer class of decoration, 

 in raised paste and gold bronze, was done. He also, while in 

 England, worked for the Doultons, at Lambeth. Some of their 

 newest designs are relief tiles, measuring six by twelve inches, 

 and among their most popular pieces are hunting panels for 

 mantel facings, with such subjects as fighting bucks, stags' heads, 

 sportsmen, and dogs. 



One of the most recent applicants for public favor is the Cam- 

 bridge Art Tile Works, of Covington, Ky.. which commenced 

 business in 1887. They are producing high grade enameled and 

 embossed goods of various shapes and in size from one half inch 

 square to six by eighteen inches. The glazes employed are re- 

 markably free from " crazing." The designer and modeler is 

 Mr. Ferdinand Mersman, who studied at the Academy of Fine 

 Arts in Munich. A pair of six l^y eighteen inch panels, which 

 have just been completed, are examples of exquisite modeling, 

 being copies of Hans Makart's celebrated paintings " Night " and 

 " Morning." 



At Anderson, Ind.. the Colunilna Encaustic Tile Company is 



