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an Italian or other foreign landscape rather than American but 
was cleverly executed. 
A number of fine plate borders were shown and two quaint 
Ijowls and plates in a grey white with blue decoration of pine 
Miss Ehlers showed some carefully and pleasingh^ executed 
table ware in Chinese designs, as well as some good lustre 
work. Miss Horlocker had a very interesting vase in Tansy 
semi-con ventionally executed in orange red on a dark green 
ground. Unfortunately the colors would not photograph 
or we should have reproduced it. 
Miss Genevieve Leonard showed a dainty comport dec- 
orated with a simple band of mistletoe in fiat enamels! Both 
Mrs. Fry and Mrs. Neal showed some interesting effects of 
lustre over gold. Mrs. Paist exhibited some painting on the 
l)iscuit which was interesting l)ut not quite satisfactory in 
texture. Mrs. Price also exhibited some good plate designs, 
especially one in elder blossom, but did not show the work we 
expected from her, judging from last year's exhibit. 
Many regrets were expressed at the small exhibit of Miss 
Elizabeth Mason whose work, executed with a teclinique 
quite beyond criticism, has alwa^ys been one of the prominent 
features of the New York exhibit. However, the pieces shown 
quite made up in excellence what thej^ lacked in number. A tall 
vase with a strictly conventionalized lily motif, in lustres, was 
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tree and ship motif. These however, while designed by Miss 
Maud Mason, were executed by Miss Elizabeth Mason. 
The plate border of trees and clouds was particrdarly 
successful in color; a quaint combination of grey yellow green 
trees with greyish pink clouds and a grey purple blue sky with 
design outhned in black. The colors used by both Miss Mason 
and Mr. Fry, while quite diiferent in application are almost 
indescribable in tone; this constitutes their chief charm. 
The exhibition of Mrs. Sara Wood Safford showed a num- 
ber of stunning combinations of silver with lustre decorations, 
of which perhaps the tankard and stein with cherry decorations 
were the most successful. The most attractive piece, how- 
ever, was a little vSatsuma bowl with a semi-conventional 
treatment in grey blue and pink flowers with a stem division 
running to the base at regular intervals. This is quite Mrs. 
Safford's own style and while her lustre and silver work is 
individual, this special treatment of flower decoration seems a 
more satisfying exposition of her art. 
Three dainty flower panels framed in black were most 
skillfully and charmingly executed both in color and technique. 
unusually good, a bowl with reddish orange design on a black 
ground was striking and Indian in character, a little teapot 
with Chinamen in black" and orange lustre and a black stein 
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