KXRAMIC STUDIO 
61 
CINERARY URN 
Perhaps at times one will find that 
the pieces are overloaded, almost too 
much incised, too heavy. When porce- 
lain is used, this constant open, or high 
and low relief work makes necessary a 
thickness of the walls of the vase and a 
heaviness of the whole piece, which is not 
exactly satisfying, as lightness and thin- 
ness have always been the great charm of 
porcelain. Faience, or better yet, stone- 
ware seem to be the most appropriate 
bodies for monumental and powerful 
shapes, and we are not surprised to see that 
occasionally Bing & Grondahl have re- 
course to stoneware, for instance in those 
cinerary urns which are one of the most 
original creations of Mr. Willumsen. 
However this constant effort to create 
brings always interesting and sometimes 
strikingly artistic results. 
Although the hand of the Director, 
Mr. Willumsen, is felt everywhere, the 
execution is entirely left to the artists 
under his direction, the Misses Heger- 
mann-Lindencrone, J. Garde, E. Drewes, 
J. Plockross, Hahn Jensen, and Messrs. 
Reesen-Stenstrup, Hammershoi, Loch- 
er, Wagner, Kofoed and Petersen. 
Miss Plockross is the author of the 
vase, "The Growth," illustrated here 
and of a symbolic meaning, like "The 
Danaides," and many of the large 
pieces of Bing & Grondahl. On the 
upper band a woman's and a man's 
head, surrounded by naked babies; at 
the bottom a brown band of soil con- 
taining the seeds of plants from which 
germinate the flowers in the middle 
band. 
GROWTH— MISS PLOCKROSS 
Another interesting product of 
Bing & Grondahl is their modeled 
animals, very similar to those of the 
Royal Manufactory and executed with 
the same perfection. Illustrations of 
these little gems of sculptured porcelain 
will be given in one of our later num- 
bers. 
THE DANAIDES— MISS HAHN JENSEN 
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ENAMELS— MR. EL1AS PETERSEN 
VASES— MISS E. HEGERMANN-L1NDENCRONE AND MISS FANNY GARDE 
