American Garden Pottery 
From Mr. Stanford White s model From a model provided by Mr. Charles A. Platt B 
ITALIAN JARS MADE BY THE PERTH AMBOY TERRA COTTA CO. 
architectural or garden design. Placed on 
boundary walls, gateposts or balustrades, 
they provide accents and local points, irre¬ 
spective of their own possibilities in formal 
beauty or as color notes, or of their func¬ 
tions as holders of plants or trees. How 
completely, too, a pair of well chosen pots, 
guarding a short flight of steps, as on a ter¬ 
race, supplies a subtly felt architectonic need ! 
They act as portals, they mark a definite 
beginning of the ascent, they set bounds to 
it in terms that admit of no uncertainty, yet 
without a too insistent proclamation. Formal 
gardens are hardly to be laid out without a 
half dozen or more specimens of the marble 
or terra-cotta vase. Along the pavement by 
the house itself, and in its very courtyard, 
these convenient, movable, decorative fact¬ 
ors of design are invaluable. And, as seen 
in the Giraud Foster place at Lenox, the 
garden jar is equally applicable to wholly in¬ 
formal parts of a design. In short, this par¬ 
ticular class of ornament, which reached so 
high a development in Italian and French 
villas of the seventeenth and eighteenth 
centuries, has at last made a place for itself 
here, and it has come to stay. The de¬ 
mand is growing with the marked turning 
toward country life. Architects and their 
clients are using these decorative pots more 
and more. 
What are the American “art” potteries 
C From models provided by Mr. Stanford Wkite 
ITALIAN JARS MADE BY THE PERTH 
Designed by Messrs. Carrere Hastings ^ 
AMBOY TERRA COTTA CO. 
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