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tlERAMlC STUDIO 
CERAMICS AT THE ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION. 
THE little country of Holland, for its size sent perhaps the 
most varied and interesting exhibit in arts and crafts 
and in ceramics also. Three potteries of note were repre- 
sented beside individual work of merit. 
The potteries represented were Delft, De Distel and 
Rosenburg, as distinct from each other in style of decoration 
as in body and glaze. The Delft pottery has been largely 
illustrated before in Keramic Studio. The body is pottery 
with an opaque white stannif er glaze on which is painted the 
decoration either in blue or polychrome. The traditions of 
the old Delft are well kept up, although many innovations 
have been introduced in form and decoration in what is 
called the Jacoba ware in red, blue and gold. Lately a 
cream tinted porcelain biscuit ware has been produced and 
decorated in green and gold. 
The pottery De Distel is of a white body sometimes of a 
creamy tone, decorated mostly on the biscuit in pale tones 
of grey, green and blue but sometimes glazed. The decor- 
ation is I'art nouveau in style but delicate and dainty. 
The Rosenburg pottery showed two different types of 
ware, the table porcelain decorated with birds, flowers and 
scrolls in an ornate style similar to the designing of Habert 
Dys, executed in color and gold on white, but rather quaint 
and attractive for all that, and the art pottery which is in 
deeper richer colors and simpler bolder designs but with the 
same sweeping curves. 
Hungary was represented by varied individual exhibits 
running greatly to lustres, bronze and rich color effects often 
somewhat garish. 
The exhibit of L. Zsolnay was perhaps the most unique and 
clever. The claim of the artist is that the lustres are not 
only on the surface but incorporated in the glaze. The 
artist says ' ' The colors or rather chemical matter put on the 
glaze, give color to the latter by reduction in the fire, but 
the chemicals themselves remain after firing on the surface 
and can be brushed off." The modeled pieces also are 
clever and unique and show an original mind. 
POTTERY-L. ZSOLNAY. 
Denmark was represented by two well known potter- 
ies. Royal Copenhagen, and Bing and Grondahl all of 
which have been well and thoroughly written up in 
former numbers of Keramic Studio. It only remains to 
say that the Royal Copenhagen showed beside the decora- 
tions in under glaze with which we are so familiar, crystal- 
line glazes in great profusion and a mottled glaze called 
"truite" which was perhaps the most interesting of all. 
ROSENBURG 
ROSEXBURG 
