HOUSE AND GARDEN 
June, 1913 
481 
The summer house is well fitted with the colorful peasant pottery of various sorts. I 
Extremely decorative Chinese It is decorative and durable. The table cover is a Liberty pattern appropriate The striped paper in the center 
motives are in demand 
for 
summer use 
is a copy from Mai Maison 
foliage design inter¬ 
spersed with lilac pink 
berries is identical with 
that used on the walls of 
the sitting-room in “Fan¬ 
ny’s First Play.” And the 
lattice paper when in 
gray 'and lilac is ideally 
suited for a room of a 
grandmamma. One can 
picture her clad in laven¬ 
der and old lace, sitting 
there by some sunny win¬ 
dow. 
Before concluding it is 
appropriate to mention 
the table service suitable 
for summer houses. Not 
lacking in artistic merit, 
it has yet a certain rural 
crudity about it, where a 
Sevres porcelain would be 
out of place. There is a 
fitness about the very 
names of the wares, such 
as Black Forest, Rusti- 
cana, Orange Ware and 
the like. Because the 
Black Forest is not mere¬ 
ly a name, the artistic 
porcelain pottery actually 
is made in the regions 
bordering on those fa¬ 
mous woods. The dec¬ 
orations on a deep cream 
ground are in rich rose 
pink, old blue and green; 
and the subdued tones 
seem to catch the shadow 
of the old trees. The 
Rusticana ware, too, is 
German, though the decorations are less pronounced. With the 
same deep cream ground, the decorations are wild flowers in 
natural tones. Orange 
Ware is from Austria, 
and a trifle more finished 
in its decoration. The 
greens, blues and yellows 
are strong yet mellow, 
really fine colors without 
any crudity. But what 
strikes one most of all is 
the shapes. This is seen 
in the candlesticks, flow¬ 
er holders, egg servers 
and cups with saucers at¬ 
tached for the broken 
shells. 
All of these elements 
might be classified gen¬ 
erally as peasant pottery, 
and it is no less pictur¬ 
esque than the interesting 
folk with which it is as¬ 
sociated in different parts 
of the world. And in 
using such ware in his 
country home one may 
feel himself thus linked 
in a way with the rural 
life of many a genial 
clime. 
Besides the wicker, wil¬ 
low, white enamel and 
other sorts of furniture 
mentioned as applicable 
to the summer home fur¬ 
nishing there is still to be 
mentioned the serviceable 
Windsor and rush bottom 
chairs. These are sug¬ 
gestive of cottage life, 
long lasting and typically 
American. In the same 
way the fascinating tables and chairs of oak or ash that might 
well have stood in Ann Hathaway’s cottage should be spoken of. 
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With the sturdy furniture in natural finish such wall paper treatment as this is dis¬ 
tinctly appropriate. The crown may be omitted, as beneath the window 
