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vases as s rule were hideous masses of glaze and lustre and 
lumps of clay, though there were a few redeeming specimens 
which recalled the Chinese colored glaze ware, one color run- 
ning in streaks into another. 
The Newcomb Pottery of which we have spoken before, 
was peculiarly interesting from the fact that the work is done 
by students. The coloring as well as designing was simple 
and artistic, most decorations being in blue and grey. 
A vase by Miss Mary Sherer, the teacher, was well 
thought out, the decoration being of pine trees in lengthwise 
divisions all around the vase, the coloring, blue on grey, with 
just a little tinge of green in the foliage. Some of the pieces 
without decoration were most interesting in form and color. 
The work of the pupils pronounce the teacher an artist of the 
highest merit. 
The lustres of Clement Massier, of Golfe Juan, France, 
were a marvel of accurate knowledge of the most freakish of 
mediums. He has no doubt how his color will come out, for 
he paints with them a sunset landscape with trees and water 
and distance too. The effect is obtained by the use of metallic 
oxides on stone ware, but such living greens and blues and 
violets, yellows, oranges and reds have not yet been discovered 
by us. The curious thing about them is that when you stand 
at a distance the entire design resolves itself into vague greys 
with scarce a suggestion of lustre. His is a method it will 
take long for us to fathom. 
Other pieces are immense jars with flower or leaf patterns, 
and a placque with a draped figure in low relief over which 
the colors waver like the prismatic colors in a mist. 
The exhibition is an education and an inspiration. 
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DESIGN FOR CHEESE DISH, ADAPTED FROM HABERT DYS— MRS. ADELAIDE ALSOP ROBINEAU 
THIS can be carried out in flat color or lustre, the original "cheeses" in different shades of yellow and orange, the whole 
application was in lustre. For the ground light green, outlined in gold. The different depths of color can be ob. 
the mice in brown, the vine and leaves in dark green, the tained by repeated washes in the second and third fires. 
