D e ce m b e r , 1919 
27 
The stenciled design is apparent in 
this copper and blue lustre ware 
pitcher of 19 th Century manufacture, 
a typical example 
the unculpable wherewith of these prohibi¬ 
tionary days to wash it down. I did not have 
the heart to spoil the adventure by disclosing 
to my country hostess the pedigree of her pot¬ 
tery. In the first place, a comfortable susten¬ 
ance was hers, and the pride I know she took in 
her pretty “dishes,” dishes which in her ignor¬ 
ance she could use 
on occasion with 
free conscience, 
would, with the 
Mi das-touch of 
babbling connois¬ 
seur ship, have 
turned the gold of 
| this contentment 
{Continued on p. 64) 
The two jugs to the right 
are examples of old copper 
lustre with flower sprays 
in blue relief. This ware 
is light in weight, thin, 
glazed inside and out 
{Left.) A blue 
underglaze resist 
lustre pitcher 
with a Morland 
hunting subject 
design 
A copper lustre 
pitcher of common 
iqth Century design 
who knew not Wedgwood from Woolworth had 
“finished with the dishes.” Instead there was 
in me the virtue to say grace with grace and to 
give thanks with a thankful heart, a heart truly 
thankful that I had enjoyed that bit of com¬ 
munion in their natural habitat with such things 
as reposed in my own abode on their remote 
museum-like hooks 
or on cabinet 
shelves, indus¬ 
triously labeled like 
mummies of the 
past, themselves 
regarded as objets 
de vertu and not as 
containers for the 
staff of life and 
Early iqth Century 
purple and white 
lustre pitcher 
The ground decoration was stenciled 
on and then glazed, as in the case of 
this floral lustre pitcher of iqth 
Century make 
{Right, above.) 
A silver and gray 
lustre covered 
dish of iqth Cen¬ 
tury workman¬ 
ship 
Silver lustre was produced by applying a second glaze of platinum solution; it must not be confused with the inferior steel lustre. Of these early iqth Century 
silver resist lustre pitchers the central shows the design of a bird with sparse foliage about—a favorite design 
