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House & G ar den 
Th 
Maiolica of old 
Oriental influ¬ 
ence is evident 
in this Mexi¬ 
can maiolica 
bottle, made 
about 17SO 
Mexico 
I F a household article is well constructed and 
serves a useful purpose, it is sure to be here 
on these nine floors of household equipment. 
This is a shop that specializes in such equipment, 
and we delight as much in pleasing you with 
a small brush for a few cents as with a kitchen 
cabinet for many dollars. 
// rite for new free booklet listing the necessities of a modern household. 
House Maid s Pail. If water 
swishes over the side—no harm 
done. It is caught in the at¬ 
tached metal basin. Metal 
pockets hold soap and scrub 
brush. The pails are in light 
blue, brilliant red, or gay yellow 
—cheerful colors to brighten 
cheerless scrubbing. 
55.50 
<<o 
L. 6? C. Nail Box. For want 
ot a nail many a temper was 
lost. With this nail box you 
can always have handy vari¬ 
ous sized nails, tacks, screws, 
picture hooks, together with 
hammer, screw driver, small 
awl and tacklifter, all ar¬ 
ranged in individual com¬ 
partments. S6.75 
1# 
' 4 ° 
Mary Ann Cake Pan. When 
you take this pan from the 
oven, your cake will have a 
high rim around the edge—a 
wall of cake to prevent crush¬ 
ed fruit,jelly andcream filling 
from faliingout. Madeof pure 
aluminum, without seams. 
Large family size $1.50. Set of 
six for individual Dortions. $3. 
£> 
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Small Cedar Chest. Occupies 
only half the space of a cigar box 
in closet or drawer. Cedar fumes 
rise from filler within, penetrating 
the fabric of clothes and destroy¬ 
ing moths. It is harmless and non¬ 
combustible. $2.00, complete. Ex¬ 
tra filler $1.00. Similar chest for 
imparting delicate lavender scent, 
same price 
MAIL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION 
45th St. & Sixth Ave., New York 
"Nine floors of household equipment" 
(Continued from page 56) 
come to know of the existence of a 
native Mexican maiolica ware. Pre¬ 
vious to this discovery it had been 
assumed that the pieces of tin-glazed 
pottery found in Mexico were all of 
Spanish origin and from the potteries 
of Talavera. Through the researches 
of Barber, Ventosa and others it has 
been shown that true maiolica was 
produced in old Mexico throughout a 
I long period. Indeed, by the middle of 
the 17th Century a Guild of Potters 
was actually organized in Puebla to 
protect the interests of the Mexican 
potters. Regulations were adopted by 
this Guild, fixing the proper prepara¬ 
tion of the earths and glazes used in 
maiolica manufacture, the grading of 
the wares, styles of decoration, sizes 
of such utensils as the albarelli (drug- 
pots) etc., as well as the prices to be 
asked by manufacturer and dealer. 
Other matters also came within the 
things its members were required to 
mark their wares with a distinctive 
trademark consisting of an initial or 
monogram device of the potter and 
heavy were the penalties imposed on 
those members of the Guild who trans¬ 
gressed its regulations, and on those 
who falsified the mark of any potter. 
After 1676 the Guild of Potters ap¬ 
parently fell upon lean years and no 
record appears to suggest that its pres¬ 
tige was later revived. Research may, 
however, disclose the cause of this sud¬ 
den inactivity; importations of Euro¬ 
pean maiolica may have had something 
to do with it, or political disturbances. 
The Mexican maiolica antedating 
the year 1700 is strongly influenced by 
the Moresque style, as evidenced by 
the scroll and strapwork decoration of 
these early pieces. There is a very im¬ 
portant example of this genre to be 
found in the blue and white tiled dado 
of the Chapel of the Rosary in the 
Church of Santo Domingo in Puebla, 
which edifice dates from 1690. The 
other 16th century influence was, of 
course, purely Spanish, marked by 
decoration of birds, animals, and fig¬ 
ures of saints, with, of course, the 
particular “turn” given such decoration 
by the native Mexican potters. 
In the 17th Century Mexico began 
to import Oriental keramic wares ex¬ 
tensively, as her own products may not 
(Above) Oriental 
ornament appeared 
in the native Mexi¬ 
can maiolica in the 
17 th century- This 
bowl shows.Oriental 
influence in the de¬ 
sign of the blue 
decorations. 
The silhouette 
style, such as that 
found in the blue 
decorations at the 
top and bottom of 
the albarello, began 
to appear in the 
first half of the 
Eighteenth Century 
