RERAMIC STUDIO 
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LILLIAN M. POSTER GRACE M. McCLURE 
Margin Designs from top:— Ancie W. Cox. Johanna Von Ove: 
Florence Cooney, Angie W. Cox. 
MRS. C. L. CADVVELL 
. McCLURIi. Lida M. Cla 
E show a few photos of the work of the first year students of the Art 
Institute. Considering that most of these students have never 
painted china and the work is all their own in design and applica- 
tion to the ware and that the instruction given was only a few hours 
once a week, the results are very satisfactory and encouraging 
beyond expectations. These pieces were selected at random and 
give a fair idea of the average work. The instructors' names of the " Department of 
Ceramics' 1 of the "Art Institute of Chicago" are: Louis J. Millet, Design, John W. 
Hasburg, Ceramics. Mr. Hasburg is thinking of opening a department of pottery, 
consisting of shaping, modelling and underglaze decoration, all shaping, etc., to be done 
entirely by hand on the throwing wheel. There will be no casting or pressing and no 
duplicates. 
TREATMENT OF CHINESE PLATE (Supplement) 
Katharin Livermore 
OUTLINE the design in black, using pen according to directions given in previous 
number of magazine. Wash in a yellowish brown background, using Yellow 
Ochre, toned with Brown No. 4, a little Silver Yellow and Black. The red is Capucine, 
touched with Brunswick Black. With the last fire, float white enamel around the petals 
of the conventionalized flower form, and wherever the design is left white (with the 
exception of the outer band, which is left in white china), using Awfsetzweis and }& 
flux, with just enough Black and Yellow Ochre to tone off the dead white effect. 
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OF INTEREST TO COLLECTORS 
The Deansgate Bress, ~\ 
Geo. Falkner & Sons, 
Designers, Engravers, Frinters, Lithographers, 
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170 Deansgate, Manchester, August 10th, 1901.J 
To the Editors of Keramic Studio : 
The interesting article which appeared in your issue of September, 1900, of the 
KERAMIC STUDIO, prompts me to write and ask if any of your readers who may happen 
to possess genuine old Staffordshire figures would care to send me photographs with 
description and dimensions of their treasures, as I am about to publish a list of these 
cottage toys. 
I have for some years been making a collection of the quaint mantelpiece orna- 
ments about which our authorities have written so very little and which are becoming 
more and more sought after every year. The glaze upon the earlier figures attributed 
to Astbury, Whielden and Voyez is much to be admired, and the humour of many of 
the village scene pieces is most delightful. They are no mean guides to the study of 
costume, and many of the pieces by Enoch Wood are fine specimens of the modellers' 
art and the potters' craft. 
If at any time any of your patrons when visiting England should find themselves 
near Manchester it will afford me much pleasure to show my small collection to those 
who may take an interest in Staffordshire figures. 
May I, as an English printer, congratulate you upon the artistic get up of your 
periodical; the illustrations are delightful examples of process work. 
I am, faithfully yours, 
Frank Falkner. 
