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11ERAMIC STUDIO 
TAXILE DOAT 
W. P.Jervis 
N the Encyclopedia of Ceramics I have called atten- 
tion to the works of this versatile ceramist, but 
the limitations necessarily imposed in the matter 
of space prevented such a full illustration of 
his productions as I think their merit entitled 
them to, and it gives me pleasure to be able to 
present some additional ones here. M. Doat is one of the 
first artists of Sevres, and has an atelier of his own, where he 
pursues his experiments, and from which he has issued many 
of his best productions. Primarily M. Doat is an artist in 
Pate-sur-pate, but to this he adds enrichments covering nearly 
the whole field of ceramics, and no problem seems too difficult 
for him to attack and conquer. An example of this is his 
success in painting in white china slip on a stoneware body, 
involving as it does the bringing to the same co-efficient of 
expansion two such greatly diversified bodies. Of the two 
1. Red flamme vase, bruvvi 
red spots of cupric* glaz 
2. Porcelain flamme vase, 
with bluish reflections. 
* Containing copper. 
und opal speckled white with blood 
i, "The Valkyries." Bright splashes 
square vases, No. i is in red fl.amme, the handles delicately 
modeled and the background of the masks in opal white, 
speckled with blood red spots. No. 2 with Valkyries of 
Odin's paradise in porcelain flamme with a greenish mat 
ground showing brilliant bluish reflection. The tall vase No. 
3 is an elongated bitter apple in hard porcelain with medal- 
lions representing pastoral poetry and enriched with lambre- 
quin decorations on a mat glaze flamme. The stand is in 
stoneware enriched with white porcelain pearls. The paper 
weights (4) are blocks of hard porcelain with subjects " War" 
and " Flora " in Pate-sur-pate, with incrustations of colored 
pastes. The large dish No. 5 is in stoneware, the pearls, or- 
naments and head in porcelain applique on the stoneware. 
The remainder of the decoration is incised. The cap of the 
savant is in copper red. This is a fine example of M. Doat's 
work, the combination of porcelain and stoneware being alone 
3. Hard porcelain vase (elongated bitter apple), mat flamme glazes. Stoneware 
stand with white pearls in porcelain. 
4. Paper weight " Bellnm," hard porcelain, mat glazes, pate sur pate cameo. 
4. Paper weight " Flore," hard porcelain flamme, mat and bright glazes, pate sur 
pate and incrustations of colored slips. 
sufficient to render it remarkable, not to speak of its artistic 
merits. 
Nos. 6 and 7 are examples of modeling where M. Doat 
has sought his inspiration direct from nature, using the gourd 
stoneware plaque about 15 inches diameter. Peat 
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porcelain applied on the stoneware, decoration 
ncised 
in the paste. 
ground metallic brown with yellow reflections. 
The 
•ap is of the 
shade of red of copper known as "horse lungs cole. 
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