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KERAMIC STUDIO 
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Mary M. Hicks 
cream ground. This brought out the colors like jewels in the 
collection that has created the greatest ripple of international 
interest to potters and collectors since the invention and per- 
fection of Rookwood ware. 
Mrs. Robineau has devoted her time to what is perhaps 
the most difficult work in the ceramic field, the making of 
porcelain decorated with high fire colored glazes. The use of 
these glazes precludes all decoration by painting, the only pos- 
sible decoration being the modeling in some way of the designs 
in the dry paste, before firing. Of the very few processes at 
her disposal for this decoration of the body of a vase, Mrs. 
Robineau prefers one which has been very little used in the 
history of pottery, because it requires much time and infinite 
patience. It is technically called "excised decoration" and 
consists in tracing a design on the vase, and then scraping the 
background until the design stands out in relief. The tall 
vase with scarab design, the lantern and the vase with an all- 
over pattern of daisies and grotesque figures of Satyrs, are 
fine examples of this difficult work. For more simple pieces 
Mrs. Robineau uses beautiful mat, crystalline or flamm6 
glazes. One of our illustrations is of a charming little vase in 
pale blue crystalline glaze with carved white stopper. The 
tall, fusele vase, in the same illustration, in pale gi'een crystals, 
is a remarkable example of throwing and firing. 
The finest pieces from the Rookwood kilns dm"ing the 
year are collected and sent to be displayed: the soft grey 
blues and delicate browns in the landscape vases, the soft greys 
and whites and pinks of the smaller Japanesque mat glazes, 
the dream-like depth to the iris ware with its wonderful flowers 
white and sea-shell pin poppies on a ground suggestion of the 
dawn, rose sprays fairly sparkling with the morning dew. 
Such decorators as Sallie E. Coyne, Sara Sax, K. Shirayamadani, 
Edwards Diers, Leonore Asbury, Lorinda Epply and Charlie 
Schmidt, should go down to posterity as some of the art makers 
of the day. 
CASE OF ROOKWOOD POTTERY 
