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RERAMIC STUDIO 
White porcelain, apples i . 
leaves, celadon; coverinpalegreen biscuit. 
Stand in natural gres, mat brown glaze. 
Cupids — Pate sur pate 
ive ground, wreaths in cela- 
stand, mat iron wood color. 
VASES— TAXILE DOAT 
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CERAMICS AT THE ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION 
FRANCE 
BY far the most interesting and instructive ceramic 
exhibit at St. Louis was that to be found in the 
French Section of the Art Palace, and the French exhibit 
at "Le Petit Trianon." For variety of medium and mode 
of expression in art the Frenchman seems to be the most 
versatile and expert technically — and in the arts of the fire 
he certainly stands supreme. 
Two important pieces, a placque " Flora and Pomona," 
in pate sur pate, figures on mat ground, and a vase in the 
same treatment "The Favorites of Cybele," by Taxile Doat, 
were bought by the Pennsylvania Museum as were also ex- 
amples of the exquisite pate tendre and translucent enamels 
of Camille Naudot and Fernand Thesmar. It is regrettable 
that the museums of America have not as yet awakened to 
the advisability and even necessity of procuring a tall 
notable exhibitions, examples of the best work of con- 
temporary American ceramists as well as of foreign workers. 
The museums of Europe are instantaneously awake and 
alert when any new star appears on the ceramic horizon 
and not one of the French exhibitors at St. Louis but could 
point to one or more examples of their work in almost every 
notable museum of Europe. 
The work of M. Taxile Doat has been so well exploited 
in Keramic Studio that it is hardly necessary to more than 
mention his name in connection with the St. Louis exhibit. 
However it is worthy of note that not only in the French 
section of the Art Palace was his work among the most 
notable but also in the Sevres exhibit at Le Petit Trianon. 
It is to be regretted that there was no way of ascertaining 
the names of individual workers in the Sevres exhibit, as it 
becomes almost impossible to mention individual pieces 
in this connection. Of the stoneware or gres, the exhibit 
of M. Jeanneney was perhaps the most important. The 
mat glazes are particularly suited to this medium, but 
do not yield as fine texture or color as on porcelain. Other 
fine work in gres was shown by Lachenal, Carriere, Methey, 
Moreau Nelaton, Savine and Delaherche. The work of 
M. Savine was in modeled porcelain figurines with draperies 
in mat glazes of very fine texture and color, the glazing and 
firing being the work, as we understand, of M. Milet. 
The wonderful work of inlaid enamels shown by MM. 
Dammouse, Feuillatre, Naudot, and Thesmar can be paral- 
leled nowhere in this country and all are equally remarkable 
in technique while quite differing in method. 
The cups, bowls, etc., of M. Dammouse are entirely of 
porcelain enamels, one color being inlaid in another, giving 
much the effect of a translucent but not transparent glass 
in soft and harmonious colors, the design melting softly 
into the ground at its edges in a most artistic and attractive 
manner. The seaweed motif was most frequently used 
and to good advantage. 
VASE AND BOWL-CAMILLE NAUDOT 
Pate tendre bowl, flowers yellow dande- 
lion, green leaxes. Value Fr. 1900. 
Pate tendre 
green leave 
Pate tendre vase, flowers blue 
green, base, open work red 
with gold decoration. 
VASE AND BOWL— CAMILLE NAUDOT 
Pate tendre coupe, blu 
