HXRAMIC STUDIO 
BUREAU OF INFORMATION AT PAN-AMERICAN 
REALIZING that it may be difficult for members of the League 
to obtain suitable accommodations, the Buffalo Society 
will establish a Bureau of Information at the studio of Miss 
Grace Milsom, Room 13 Anderson Building, Huron and Main 
Sts., where for the nominal sum of 25 cents any one applying 
may receive information and be furnished with reliable and 
pleasant accommodations during their stay in Buffalo either 
during the time of the League's meeting or at any time during 
the Pan-American. Here also will be found a registration book 
where visitors will be welcome and where they are requested 
to register and make themselves known to the Buffalo Society. 
Please send mail to Mrs. Frank J. Schuler, at the address 
given above. 
SUPPLEMENT TREATMENT 
FOR the mermaid, use the flesh coloring as given in former 
numbers of Keramic Studio, shading tail with Deep 
Blue Green, Shading Green or Green 7 and Yellow Brown. 
Same for hair, adding Finishing Brown. In background, Deep 
Blue Green, Shading Green, Albert Yellow and Carmine 2. 
For roses in border, Carmine 2, Albert Yellow, Yellow Brown, 
and Shading Green for centre. For fish, Carmine 2, Deep 
Blue Green, Yellow Brown and Pompadour. After padding 
background, wipe out wave lines with a little cotton wool on 
a stick. 
This can also be treated in a posteresque style in flat 
colors or lustres, outlined in black. The border could be 
made very effective, treated in bronze and gold with black 
outlines, For lustre treatment of center, use brown for flesh, 
light and dark green, orange or yellow brown, simplifying the 
border as much as possible. 
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THE ARKWRIGHT CHINA SOLD 
ONE of the most renowned collections of Oriental china in 
England, begun by Arkwright, the inventor of cotton 
spinning, has been purchased by Duveen Brothers, dealers in 
antiques, for a large sum. The collection includes specimens 
of the rarest Chinese porcelain, including the largest peach- 
blow vase in the world. This vase is eighteen inches high and 
nearly twice the size of the famous vase from the Stephens 
collection, now in the Walters collection in Baltimore. The 
vendor of the collection is a grandson of the original owner, 
Arkwright. The entire collection is to be brought to the 
United States. 
With regard to the collection, H. J. Duveen said: "The 
collection is not great in size. It numbers in all between 150 
and 175 pieces It was really started 78 years ago, and is 
remarkable for a number of individually magnificent specimens 
that it contains. There are some minor pieces, naturally, 
which are of less importance. I do not know if the purchase 
will be transferred entire to this country, but I hope so." 
" I inspected the collection while in England last summer. 
It has been kept at the country home of the Arkwrights near 
Northampton. It has never been shown in London or in 
public exhibition, the estate of Sir James Arkwright being in 
the heart of the country, about fifteen miles drive from the 
railway. I went there for the purpose of placing a valuation 
on the whole collection. What was the price? Ah, that is a 
matter of business. I prefer to say only that some objects in 
the collection are valued very highly indeed. — Exchange. 
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MAKING DESIGNS FOR REPRODUCTION 
HERE are two ways of making designs for reproduction, 
i. e., pen and ink drawings and wash drawings in black 
and white. As a general thing a pen and ink drawing is pref- 
erable, though naturalistic studies show more of the finer 
details in wash drawing. To make a good pen and ink study 
for reproduction, it is necessary to have a good smooth Bristol 
board or paper, India ink (the bottle ink preferred), Higgin's 
or Carter's, fine India ink pens for fine work, any ordinary pen, 
not stub, for heavy lines, and a brush for filling in black 
spaces. Then, to facilitate your work, a compass pen and 
pencil for circles, kneaded rubber to take out pencil marks, a 
ruler for measurements, and for circular designs a plate divider 
(KERAMIC STUDIO, Jan. 1900). Make your trial circles and 
designs first with pencil, so that if changed before finishing, 
you can erase all unnecessary marks. Make a good firm line, 
not so slowly as to look jerky nor so fast as to look hasty and 
thin at the end. In repeated designs make a careful tracing 
and make both sides of a symmetrical form as nearly alike as 
possible. To indicate various depths of color, cover the 
spaces with fine dots, closer together where you wish the color 
effect darker. Wash in black with brush for the darkest parts. 
For a wash drawing, use a smooth water color paper, 
Whatman's " not " is good. Make your contrasts of dark 
and light good and strong, sometimes using Chinese white if 
necessary. 
Send designs in tubes open at both ends, passing a string 
through and tieing on the outside. This will prevent loss in 
the mail and make the cost of sending much less. Attention 
to these few details will make much more desirable-looking 
designs for reproduction than are usually sent in. 
In connection with this subject, we should like to call 
attention to the beautiful execution of the fourth prize, 
modern design, by Mrs. Earle Sloan. This was done with 
very black ink on parchment paper and is a delightful piece of 
work in the original, there is so much beauty of line and ex- 
ecution. 
When necessary to show color scheme of a repeated design 
by washes of different depths, carry out only a section or two 
in wash, making balance of design in line, as you will see in 
Mrs. Robineau's plate design in this number. This serves a 
double purpose of showing the color scheme, and saving in 
cost of reproduction. 
HONEYSUCKLE CUP AND PLATE 
Grace Osborne 
FLOWER pale Pompadour shading into pale Albert yellow. 
Leaves a dull light green. Dotted ground a green blue 
or brown, black portions and outlines in red, brown or gold. 
