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tlERAMIC STUDIO 
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LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION CERAMICS 
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grueby faience 
When the Grueby Pottery first sent out its bowls and jars 
with its fine mat and craquele green glazes, few dreamed that 
these quiet restful pieces would take such a hold upon the 
popular fancy — and after that the deluge! Everyone with a 
ceramic leaning made haste to discover a mat green to sell 
while the fever lasted. Many have been the mat greens put 
upon the market since then and each potter claims his to be 
the one and only perfect glaze, but the fact still remains that 
the Grueby green is the most satisfying and the interesting 
craquele effects have rarely been approached bj' any potter. 
It is to be regretted perhaps that the body is not of a finer 
grain, but for interior work that is not of so much consequence. 
The business of the Grueby pottery, everyone knows, was 
originally the making of drain and sanitary piping, etc., the 
art ware necessarily must have been of the same materials to 
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