A Chaise Longue at 
$129.00 used with several 
bedroom schemes in the 
“HOUSE OF THREE GABLES” 
3 East 52nd Street, New York 
12 WEST 40th STREET, NEW YORK 
Established iMl Paris 1$ Rue D* Artois 
tilt, INTERIORS AND 
mCM, * their furnishing 
On Exhibition 
Demonstration of modern tapestry 
weaving wuh examples woven under our 
direction on American looms. 
A Smoking Room in Tile and Wrought Iron—conceived and executed by us in its entirety 
Cottage Ornaments — A Revived Fad 
(Continued on page 78) 
others in dog designs. 
Red clay was used by 
the elder Astbury in 
making these figures in 
1736 to 1743. They 
were also made of buff 
clay and are easily dis¬ 
tinguished by the fact 
that not' one was over 
6 " in height and all of 
them had a mottled ap¬ 
pearance. Few pieces are 
higher priced today than 
these which are prized 
for their historic value. 
Most of these figures 
were made in pairs and 
it is almost impossible 
to find duplicates be¬ 
cause the potters took 
great pains not to make 
more than a pair alike. 
This gives more zest to 
the collectors. The fa¬ 
vorite subjects at that 
period were shepherds, 
milkmaids, cobblers, 
etc., while classic and 
religious groups were 
very popular. The most 
common of the latter 
were the Flight into Egypt and Rebecca 
at the Well. 
Staffordshire 
The Staffordshire figures are for the 
most part unmarked. Ralph Wood of 
Burslen was among the first to sign his 
pieces. His work was in the 18th Cen¬ 
tury. One of his best designs is the 
A white Wedgwood 
figure of fine execution 
Vicar and Moses. It is 
a humorous representa¬ 
tion of a somnolent 
vicar in his pulpit with 
a clerk below, and 
shows considerable skill 
in modeling and ex¬ 
ceptional power in the 
delineation of character. 
The coloring is quiet 
and restrained. Inferior 
versions of this piece 
were afterward made by 
Wood’s successors, but 
they were modeled in a 
weak manner and in 
enamel coloring of gar¬ 
ish and unbalanced 
hues. Another group of 
a similar trend is that 
of a parson and his 
clerk returning home 
after a carousal, but it 
is of more recent date 
and is ascribed to either 
the son of Ralph Wood 
or William Adams of 
the Brick House works. 
It was copied, however, 
from a Chelsea-Derby 
model and therefore 
should not be attributed unreservedly to 
any particular Staffordshire potter. 
Ralph Wood was one of the first to 
come into prominence through his inter¬ 
esting figures. One of them, 9" high, 
shows a beggar leaning upon two sticks 
and is called “Old Age.” It is marked 
R. Wood. One T-fy" high shows a young 
(Continued on page 82) 
John Gilpin, if we believe the poet, rode in 
this unsportsmanly fashion and is immortal¬ 
ized in Staffordshire. C. 1775 
