HXRAMIC STUDIO 
'73 
NATIONAL LEAGUE EXHIBIT AT THE PAN- 
AMERICAN 
THE National League exhibit is a large one and contains 
many interesting specimens, prominent among which are 
the pottery and porcelain exhibits of Miss McLaughlin, Mrs. 
Frackleton and Mrs. Irelan. Miss Louise McLaughlin has 
sent a case of small vases called " Losanti " ware. They are 
of a soft porcelain, resembling the Chinese, light in weight, 
creamy in color and appear to be turned by hand as the por- 
celain is of varying thickness. All are decorated underglaze 
or with colored glazes, none are decorated overglaze. The 
colors used are mostly a greenish grey, brownish or purplish 
red and blue. Many of the vases are decorated with flowers 
in low relief, or incised designs, often parts about the tops of 
the designs being cut out. The shapes are quaint and inter- 
esting, but simple and in good taste. A few have dull glazes. 
We noticed especially a vase in dark and pale olive greens; 
tulip in low relief, background a sort of lattice; another in 
grey and brownish grey with incised peonies ; and two slender 
cylindrical vases, one blue with water lilies in relief, one dark 
blue and red mixed ground with a design of flowers and stems 
in relief. Then there was a vase, Chinese in shape and feeling, 
with a spotted red and green glaze ; a vase in blues also, with 
pansies about the base and cut out background, the interstices 
being filled with a greenish glaze. Altogether Miss McLaugh- 
lin's exhibit was an extremely attractive one to connoisseurs 
and was the object of great interest to those who are inter- 
ested in pastes and glazes and especially to those interested 
in the making of porcelain in this country. 
Mrs. S. S. Frackleton showed a large case of interesting 
grey stoneware. We understood that she was not pleased 
with what she had sent and intended to send a new lot as 
soon as it came from the kiln. However, we found what she 
did send very well worth examining. The decorations are in 
a sort of Delft blue and the result, in many cases, is very 
artistic. There are two tall covered jars, of a Chinese shape. 
One has poppies in high relief, an incised design of blue in 
the background. The other has a similar treatment of Pome- 
granates. Then there was a tall vase of tulip design with a 
bulging top, the flower supporting the bulge and the stems 
reaching to the base. Many pieces, such as steins, tankards, 
loving cups and jars have very decorative inscriptions. A 
tankard in thistles with bulging top supported by Gothic 
arches was extremely nice and a low jar with a scroll and 
band in blue might have come direct from Delft, so typical 
was the decoration as well as color. We have not heard what 
Mrs. Frackleton calls her ware, but she may well be proud of 
it under any name. 
Mrs. Irelan sends only a few examples of her " Roblin " 
ware, which seems to be a sort of terra cotta unglazed, very 
light and capable of delicate manipulation, as was shown in 
several pieces with toadstools and ferns carefully and deli- 
cately modeled standing out bodily from the vases ; each 
little crease and convolution of the toadstool, each little frond 
and finger of the fern minutely and lovingly shown. A green 
vase with a lizard about the slender neck was very attractive. 
This piece had a dull glaze if we remember right. There were 
several green pieces with ferns in a lighter tone. 
These three pottery exhibits show that the women who 
are going to the root of things in pottery are striking out for 
themselves independently, not following a beaten track nor 
copying one the other, as has so long been the paralyzing 
custom in overglaze work. Three more different mediums or 
styles of work one could not well imagine. 
The large overglaze exhibit has already been mentioned, 
especially the fine exhibit of figure work from all our best 
workers, but a few things call for special mention as being out 
of the ordinary. 
Mr. Marshall Fry has a case of fine pieces, most of which 
were exhibited at the Waldorf last winter. One does not 
need to describe his well-known and exquisitely painted pars- 
ley, milkweed, asters and pine cones, but his newer and more 
conventional work heralds an era of decorative work that is 
going to make its impression not only here but abroad. His 
large vase with storks and reeds in a deep brown, almost 
black, ground was one of the striking things at the Waldorf 
last winter, but he is showing a new vase which we consider 
by far the most interesting yet. The vase is tall and slender, 
in soft grays, rather Copenhagen in tone, with sea weeds 
draped from the top and fishes swimming about below. This, 
like the stork vase, is Japanese in feeling but is more original 
and we feel that it represents better the personality of the 
artist as does also the vase exhibited with the National Arts 
Club. Among the other exhibits of the New York Club we 
were attracted by the vase in fleur de lis of Miss Maude Mason. 
It is treated conventionally and outlined in black on a dark 
ground, recalling the Japanese Cloisonne ; otherwise we do 
not feel that either Miss Maude or her sister, Miss Bessie 
Mason, are fairly represented. Miss Maude Mason is doing 
some very interesting things in conventional work, beside her 
well known flower painting, and we expect to see something 
unique at the next exhibit of the New York society. Miss 
Bessie Mason shows only two pieces, a stein with a conven- 
tionalized design of birds, somewhat mediaeval in style, 
executed in flat enamels with gold and lustre and a bowl with 
a lustre decoration of dragon flies ; both are well executed and 
pleasing in color and general effect, but the exhibit is too 
small to justly show her ability in the decorative line. 
Mrs. Sadie Wood Safford has a stunning vase. The 
design is of fishes with swirling lines from top to base of vase. 
The vase is in various tones of yellow, orange, and red, which 
