American Garden Pottery 
GARDEN JARS IN WHITE, GREEN OR REDDISH BROWN TERRA 
COTTA, BY LUCIE F. PERKINS 
cotta, with matte glaze, 
reduced by the sand 
blast to a rich but quiet 
surface. Though this 
sculptor-potter never 
deliberately copies, 
preferring to weave 
together her impres¬ 
sions into an individ¬ 
ual whole, the 1 ndian 
character shows in the 
subtly curved and 
simply decorated jars 
marked EE and FF. The tall vase, HH, 
is an early one, and JJ also belongs to the 
beginning of Miss Perkins’s garden pottery 
work, three years ago. Italian and Byzan¬ 
tine influences blend in her old well-head 
patterns, while the skull of a steer in LL 
(how admirably modeled it is and how dec¬ 
orative) takes one back to the plains of the 
far west. Fitly proportioned is a square 
vase, made on a great scale, the weight of 
clay used being fully 1,200 pounds. Elere 
Miss Perkins has proven her wisdom by 
keeping in mind the form naturally taken 
by an architectural column capital. Such 
garden pottery as this should “ turn many 
to righteousness.” 
MODELLED DESIGN FOR A SUN-DIAL, BY EDITH W. BURROUGHS 
Awarded the Avery Prize hy the Architectural League of New York 
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