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RERAMIC STUDIO 
MART CHASE PERRY AT WORK 
MARY CHASE PERRY, POTTER 
Among the host of potters which the ceramic movement 
in this country has brought to the front in the past three years 
there are a few names which stand out from the mass of imi- 
tators, by reason of original and hard work. Among these 
Mary Chase Perry deserves place in the first rank. Originally 
a china decorator of the naturahstic school, dissatisfied always 
with the results obtainable under the old regime, she has at 
last found her medium of expression in the"Pewabic Ware" 
which she makes in her little pottery at Detroit, Michigan. 
The pieces which were shown in the Michigan building at St. Louis 
stood out from the mass by their simple shapes and cjuiet 
color. Of all the mat glazes on pottery, the yellows, buffs, 
and browns which Miss Perry has developed, seem most a unit 
. with the vase itself. The texture is the most satisfying and 
"the color a relief from the eternal mat greens with which everv^ 
would-be potter is trying to outdistance Grueby and win fame 
and fortune before the fad is past. Quite recently Miss Perry 
held an exhibit of the results of her past two year's quiet work 
and the effect more than equalled expectation. 
AVith only three helpers, Mr. Caulkins, with whom she is 
associated in the making of the Revelation Kilns and who 
is as enthusiastic as she over her work, one man to throw 
the forms on the wheel, for she uses no moulds, and a young 
boy to do the " odds and ends," she has turned out not only an 
astonishing amount of work but many pieces of unusual artistic 
merit which will assuredly bring her merited success in a 
financial wav. 
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Miss Perrv is not limited to the buffs and browns for 
color but we mention these as being especially unusual and 
interesting. She has quite a range of color on which she can 
rety as well as many unexpected and unusual effects, such as 
unexpected natural crystallizations. Her pottery is fired at 
cone 4 and quite well vitrified so that it holds water well, as 
do not many of the lower fired wares. Much of her decoration 
is in rather high relief and the ideas are often uniqvie both in 
thought and execution — notably the peacock design for lamp 
and the flower growth arrangements where the roots form the 
Ijasc and support of the piece. 
The Pewabic ware is named from an Indian river near 
Miss Pcrrv's home. 
