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PLATE BORDER— RUTH M. RUCK 
Treatment by Jessie M. Bard 
THIS should be painted very delicately. Out- 
line is gold. Flowers painted with Rose, a 
very delicate pink at the edge and a little 
heavier toward center. Stems and leaves Apple 
Green and a little Violet. 
BURLEY EXHIBITION 
Photographs of the exhibition work are shewn in the Burley advertisement 
on page XV of this (December) number. 
THE annual exhibition given by Burley & Co. showed this 
year a few less pieces but of greater merit. Each year 
proves more emphatically the great value these exhibitions 
are to the workers in the various parts of the United States at a 
central point where the fruits of their industry can be attrac- 
tively displayed to the visiting pubUc and in friendly competi- 
tion for the several cash prizes that are awarded. 
Among so many, only a few can be mentioned within the 
space of a short article. We will first call attention to the 
prize winning pieces of conventional ornament. Both the 
clever designing and good execution on a Chocolate Pot by 
Miss Mabel Emery of Indianapolis, Ind., carried off the first 
prize. Her conventional lines in gold formed the pleasing 
ornament disposed on an odd blue top border with gi-een ac- 
cents, and a dull rose background which cut into a soft cream 
ground on the lower half of the pot. 
The second prize went to Mr. Otto Trepte on a Tea Set of 
three pieces. The comment of the Jury was, that it showed the 
best proportioned decoration in etched gold on white back- 
ground so far exhibited in Chicago. It has a firm, snappy 
handling of flowers and leaves well conventionailized. The 
handle and spout are treated in plain gold against the uncovered 
body of white china giving a pleasing contrast. 
The first Honorable Mention was given to Miss Etta M. 
Beede of Minneapolis, on a Chocolate Pot. The ornament and 
color scheme combined a tone of faded gi-een with gold bands, 
flower groups in metal colors attractively conventionalized. 
There was a specially clever spacing and coloring of the handle 
and spout. This piece was particularly noticeable for the 
good proportion in the decoration. 
Miss Marie S. Maddox, of Texas, displayed a Chop Plat- 
ter done in golden yellows and gi'eens, a dandelion leaf and bud 
pattern ingeniously worked out and delightful in general color- 
ing. This took the Second Honorable Mention. 
Mrs. J. W. Dixon of Kokomo, Ind., received the Third 
Honorable Mention for plates in resist style of ornament, a 
delicate one color decoration on white of seemingly simple 
forms rather suggestive of the Orient. 
The following are a few of the other conventional decora- 
tions. Mrs. A. P. Latham of Toledo showed a pretty bowl 
done without outline which is hazardous generally. Colors soft 
greens, border design with a strewn all-over pattern outside 
and a well divided broken band on the inside of the ring. 
Miss Gertrude Gilpin of Portland, Ind., had a tall pitcher, 
roses and stalks, graduated rosettes as an upper flower band 
with cream bands as a background; the scheme has much merit 
but rather too irregular and lacks firmness of outline. 
Miss Mary B. Cameron of Minneapolis, showed a bowl of 
pleasing ornament and well thought out in its divisions and color 
The ground is a soft green tone, leaves and stems in darker 
green, flowers in rose, double band of green and gold at the top, 
no thought has been given to the inside, this is a drawback — 
a rich all-over scheme of color on one side and a blank white 
on the other is a mistake — ^not a part of the interesting but un- 
written law of contrasts we all are working with. 
Miss Grace Gale of Evanston, 111., displayed plates of 
heavy, decisive borders, the designs and color scheme give 
promise for the future if she will give additional study to execu- 
tion. 
Mrs. A. M. Barothy of Chicago, showed a bowl and ladle, 
the design and coloring of the flowers are lovely, but a strong 
deep blue geometrical figure is too prominent, attracts the eye 
from the intended center of interest, with this detail in a light 
or neuti-al color the whole would be indeed charming. 
Miss Armenia Sampey of Newton, Iowa, showed several 
good pieces, soft color schemes, interesting and delicate designs. 
Mr. C. 0. Manspeaker, of Battle Creek, Mich., displayed 
in one place a fine color scheme in grey blues and gold of most 
ingenious design, we would suggest that with this talent he 
adds more accuracy in execution. 
Mrs. LeRoy T. Steward, of Chicago, showed a chop or 
fruit platter that is one of the richest in color and design ever 
produced by this talented atrist, it is a unique handling of the 
geometrical forms with white marguerites; as always, she marked 
it "not in competition." 
The following naturalistic work received prizes: 
The first prize was awarded to Mr. E. Chalinor, of Chicago, 
for a plate with a foreign landscape decoration in blue greys 
touched with delicate yellows and rose in the foregi'ound. 
Mrs. Heimerdinger's claret pitcher shows that she loved 
her piece and had deft fingers for executing her convictions; 
the decoration is a misty golden rod, rich, and novel in handling, 
it took the second prize. 
The first Honorable Mention was givei". lor a most inter- 
esting Tea Set to B. B. Carlson, of Chicago. 
Mrs. H. L. Freeman, of Chicago, displayed a set of fruit 
plates of sturdy design, gold ornaments holding in frame form 
various fruits all very rich in color contrasts to the white and 
shade ground. She was given the second Honroable Mention. 
The third Honorable Mention was awarded Mrs. L. Petrie, 
of Chicago, on her dainty realistic figure painting; she has been 
rewarded for her courage as this style of ornament does not 
appear to have been gi'eatly used for some time. 
A ship in full sail painted by Arthur Cummings, is a fine 
picture painted on china — not a decoration, as china decoration 
is now understood. 
