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DESIGN FOR PLATE 
Julius Bauer 
THIS design can be treated in various ways. One treatment 
is: Tint the plate an Ivory Yellow all over, dry it, 
draw the stems and lay in leaves with Moss Green and a little 
Yellow; cut out the flowers, lay them in and shade them with 
Pink, Calise, Canary Yellow and Yellow Brown. Keep flowers 
forming the centre deeper than the outer ones. The little 
berries lay in with Yellow Red. 
Second fire: Tint border over with Brown Green, the 
centre formed by the flowers, Yellow Brown, dry, cut out flow- 
ers and leaves and strengthen colors in flowers and leaves if 
necesssary. Third fire: Outline leaves or flowers as much as 
you see fit; draw border lines and put gold dots on brown or 
green tints in border. Some of the flowers, the centre ones, 
may be done in Yellow Red with some light Pompadour put in. 
JAPANESE BRIC-A-BRAC 
At times the public hears of fancy prices given for old 
fashioned china and other articles of "vertu." Many are dis- 
gusted to see hundreds of dollars given for a single article of 
"crockery," and thousands for a set, complete or "otherwise." 
It appears that the wealthy Japanese have quite as great a 
weakness with regard to their own peculiar ware, with land- 
scapes and pictures that exhibit a delightful and entire ab- 
sence of " perspective." Many rich Japanese connoisseurs 
are willing to pay prices for native artistic objects which no 
Englishman would think of giving for the same articles. A 
cup of stoneware, covered with lustrous black glaze, having 
ash-covered spots (no great beauty, apparently), fetched a 
sum equivalent to ,£300 sterling. Evidently the Japanese 
have their foibles. — Potter v Gazette. 
Suggestion for pottery decoration by George Hoel. 
DESIGN FOR PLATE— JULIUS BAUER 
