RERAMIC STUDIO 
249 
THE COLLECTOR 
TREATMENT OF SALAD BOWL 
Miss Clements 
THIS design is very pleasing carried out in Copenhagen 
Blue on a white ground. Another appetizing treatment 
would be to make the flowers in Pale Yellow, the leaves in 
Grey Green. To accomplish an even flat tone blend the color 
with a silk pad, cleaning out the design with a bit of cotton 
wool on a stick. This design would also be effective in differ- 
ent shades of gold on a white or cream ground, with or with- 
out outlines in black or brown. Any monochromatic treat- 
ment would be suitable. 
One hundred and ten of the three hundred and forty 
costly reproductions of Pompeiian bronzes recently presented 
by Andrew Carnegie to the Carnegie Institute have already 
arrived in Pittsburg. The rest are being made by a firm in 
Naples, who expect to complete the set in the course of the 
next year. 
A PUZZLING SERIES OF DARK BLUE 
THE maker of this series is unknown. So far as we know 
no maker's mark or names of views have been found on 
pieces with this border design, and it remains one of the most 
puzzling series of dark blue. Pieces have a soft, fine glaze and 
are of a rich dark blue. 
Our illustration No. 1 is generally called "Cadmus." Mr. 
Halsey, speaking of this plate, says: "Another view evi- 
dently showing the Cadmus while lying off Staten Island. In 
the distance appears a boat dressed with flags in honor of 
Lafayette." Mr. Barber does not seem to consider the plate 
as an American view, as we find only the three Cadmus plates 
with shell border in his list of historical pieces. Unless a 
mark is found there will always be much doubt and discussion 
about this view, as about all the other views of this series, but 
collectors will undoubtedly keep calling it " Cadmus." 
No. 1— 9-inch plate known as ' ' Cadmus ' ' 
From Early New York on Dark Blue Staffordshire by R. T. H. Halsey. 
By courtesy of Dodd, Mead & Co. 
Our second illustration is a cup and saucer called by col- 
lectors and dealers " B. & O. R. R. Cup." We do not find it 
either in the Barber or Halsey lists of historical pieces, and 
they evidently consider it as simply a view of an old locomo- 
tive and car, probably English. 
Illustration No. 3 is known as " Fulton Steamboat Plate," 
nobody knows why, and it is considered to-day as an English 
view, not only by authorities, but by most collectors. 
Are all the views of this series views of American or Eng- 
lish boats, locomotives, etc., are some of them American, 
some English? The safest solution of the question is un- 
doubtedly that adopted by Mr. Barber, who leaves the whole 
series out of the American list. The so-called B. & O. R. R. 
cup for instance may have been intended to represent an 
American railroad. But who can say so positively? We re- 
produce here some views of the first railroads in this country. 
It will be noticed that the passenger car on the cup bears a 
close resemblance to the car of the M-ohawk & Hudson R. R. 
However, the first English cars had also the stage coach shape 
and the carrying of baggage on top of the coach was 
as much an English as an American custom. The loco- 
motive on the cup is of the English type, but the 
first locomotive used in this country, the Stourbridge Lion, 
was English. On the B. & O. R. R. plate with shell border 
by Wood, the locomotive is also of English type and has not 
the slightest point of resemblance to the "Tom Thumb" used 
in the B. & O. R. R. experiments. However this plate was 
