Mrs. Watts' Terra-Cotta Industry 
artistic productions, has every chance of 
being seen and felt in the terra-cotta work 
of the Compton Studios. 
There are, perhaps, two things which chiefly 
strike the visitor to this village industry—for 
village industry it remains, although some 
a studio where the designs are being enlarged 
to scale, the potter’s wheel, that fascinating 
relic of antiquity which we cannot better, a 
great room where all the moisture is dried out 
of the clay before the actual firing, an upper 
chamber where artists are modelling cupids 
TERRA-COTTA WINDOW BOXES 
DESIGNED AND MADE AT COMPTON 
professionals have been 
added to the original class 
and the work goes on all 
day now instead of only 
in the evening —and that 
is the orderly sequence 
of the different stages of 
work in the different 
studios and the quiet 
happiness of the workers. 
As the visitor passes from 
the field where shapeless 
masses of clay are dug up, 
he can follow every stage 
of its development into a 
thing of beauty and a joy 
forever, and the progress 
cannot fail to interest. 
He finds in succession 
AN ORNAMENT MADE AT THE 
COMPTON STUDIOS 
and leaves and flowers, 
geometrical designs and 
figures, as the case may 
be, a room set apart for 
the workers in gesso who 
are busy with the decora¬ 
tions for the Compton 
Cemetery Chapel, and 
lastlv, the kilns where 
the clay is fired and which 
remain sealed up for 
about eight days, inclu¬ 
sive of the time allowed 
for cooling. After this, he 
can inspect any finished 
work which happens to 
be undelivered or not 
made to a special order. 
Here he may see those 
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