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KERAMC STUDIO 
THE COLLECTOR 
THE cut herewith presented is of a German Jug in the col- 
lection of Col. John H. Drake, Syracuse, N. Y. 
It was a wedding present to the grandmother of a Ger- 
man woman who is upwards of 90 years of age, and if the 
story that was related in regard to it is true, and there is no 
reason to doubt it, it is more than 1 50 years since that wedding 
took place in a small town in Germany. The jug was prob- 
ably made especially for the recipient, as the following legend 
(impressed) on one side would indicate : 
" Mit dein Wiebien vereins, 
Beim vollem Becher, 
Dieses sind Stunden, 
Urn an gesurden." 
Translated it reads about as follows: 
" With thy little wife opposite, 
And a beaker well filled, 
These are hours to be enjoyed." 
By reference to the cut you will observe that the spout is 
formed in the shape of a man's face with a beard and great 
horns protruding from the forehead. The handle is formed 
with a dragons head at the upper end and finished below with 
the head of a serpent. On one side in relief is shown a Ger- 
man and his frau reading the news from the " Gartenlaube," 
and judging from the expression on their countenance the 
news is both interesting and pleasing. On the table in front 
of them is the " well filled beaker," the pipe and the old lady's 
knitting. The rest of the body of the jug is covered with lattice 
work, dotted with jewels in dark blue, the upper and lower 
parts are decorated with festoons, flowers and other designs, 
in relief, in dark blue, the prevailing color being the usual 
grey of the German stoneware. The modeling of the faces 
and the expression are very artistic as well as pleasing, and 
stamp the jug as the work of a master. 
THE APPLICATION OF ORNAMENT 
A. G. Marshall 
THIRD PAPER. 
N designing a decoration or adapting an ornament 
some of the essentials to a happy result that are not 
always given enough consideration, are that the 
characterof the decoration both in motive and hand- 
ling should be in keeping with the material of the 
object, harmonious with the lines of its form, and in mass, and 
also magnitude of detail, proportioned 
to its size. A design appropriate for a 
vase of fine paste and elegant shape 
would be as much out of place on a 
stout majolica jug as a lace shawl would 
be on the shoulders of a milkmaid, while 
the robust motives suitable to the coarser 
form would degrade and spoil the deli- 
cacy of the finely modeled vase. To 
illustrate : any one with a sensitive eye 
would at once perceive that such mo- 
tives as Figs. 1 and 2 would harmonize 
with a vase of classical purity of outline, 
while the delightfully shapeless Dutch 
boy (Fig.3), taken from a painting by Nico 
Jungman, would be simply dreadful in 
a like situation, but would well befit a heavy cylindrical or 
pot-shaped piece of ware, and be just as good art in its proper 
place. 
