RERAMIC STUDIO 
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TREATMENT FOR NUT BOWL IN "BURR OAK" 
Jeanne M. Steivart 
THIS design is to be finished in the Green Grey and Violet 
tones. Each acorn has a light wash of light Violet, with 
a little Turquoise Green over the tips, while the hull is kept 
in the Greens and Browns. In these, Yellow Brown and Olive 
Greens may be used with Chestnut Brown and Yellow Brown 
in dark tones. 
It would be well to keep one or two of the more promi- 
nent leaves in other autumn colorings, using Yellows and 
Browns, with but little red, as the latter color would not har- 
monize well with the Violet tones in back ground. 
A grey made of Rose, Yel- 
low Green and Banding Blue 
is used for lighter background 
tones shading into a darker 
grey of Ruby Purple, Shading 
Green and Banding Blue. Into 
this is worked the light Violet 
tone spoken of above. 
The general tone of back- 
ground should be Grey, with but 
occasional dashes of Violet. 
Three fires are necessary to 
give this piece the proper depth 
of coloring and degree of finish. 
Dry colors dusted in last fire 
will give the darker tones a bet- 
ter glaze and finish. 
PROVIDENCE EXHIBIT 
THE Rhode Island School of 
Design at Providence has 
just closed its second Annual 
Exhibition by American Art- 
ists. 
It is the purpose of this 
school to' gradually form in its 
museum a characteristic collec- 
tion of the best pictures of prom- 
inent American painters. To 
this end an exhibition is held 
each year of the best available 
contemporary works, and from 
each exhibition one picture is 
selected by a Special Commit- 
tee to be purchased by the 
Trustees of the school. This 
method of selection also affords 
the people of Providence an op- 
portunity to become familiar 
with the paintings produced 
from year to year by the leading American artists. The in- 
come of the Jesse Metcalf fund of $50,000 is devoted to this 
purpose. 
The aims of the Trustees have met with cordial apprecia- 
tion from artists throughout the country, who in almost all 
instances have sent their best and most representative works. 
That the people of Providence appreciate the opportunity 
offered, is shown by an attendance of over 5,500 people during 
the three weeks the exhibition remained open. 
This year nineteen artists exhibited. From the thirty 
paintings hung on the gallery walls, the jury selected "Tulips 
and Hyacinths," by George Hitchcock, as the museum pur- 
chase for 1902. A "Still Life," by Wm. M. Chase, "Head 
waters of the Westport Rivers," by R. Swain Gifford, and "In 
the Woods," by F. W. Benson, were also sold and remain in 
Providence. 
One of the few examples of Miss Cecilia Beaux's work 
to be found in New England, is now on exhibition in our gal- 
leries, the portrait of Miss Sarah E. Doyle, one of the repre- 
sentative women of Rhode Island. The portrait was 
painted during the past summer. It is expected that 
this masterly work will remain on exhibition here for some 
time. 
The Mineral Painters' League has just been inaugurated 
in Auburn, N. Y. The following officers were elected : Presi- 
dent, Miss Maude Myers ; Secretary and Treasurer, Miss Etta 
Porter. 
It is hoped that the City League may join the National 
League in the near future. 
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gTUDIO A class in composition and design has been 
formed to meet at the studio of Miss Mason, 
NOTES 4 g E 26th s treet, under the superv i sion f 
Miss Grace A. Cornell, Mr. Dow's assistant at Pratt's Institute 
and his summer school at Ipswich. 
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NUT BOWL IN "BURR OAK »— JEANNE M. STEWART 
£LUB The Jersey City and Brooklyn Club gave 
NOTES tne ' r exhibitions the first week in December, 
and we understand that they were very suc- 
cessful. 
The Bridgeport Society of Keramic Arts visited New 
York on December 6th, where they spent the day going the 
rounds of the studios, taking in the Tiffany Glass Studios, 
aud those open to them, especially at 96 Fifth Avenue, where 
they were afterwards hospitably entertained by Mrs. Fannie 
Rowell. 
SOME pungent criticism was incited by the intelligence that 
President Roosevelt had placed the order for a new 
equipment of the White House with china with English 
manufacturers. 
The information, while correct enough, did not entitle the 
strenuous Chief Magistrate to any charge of lack of American- 
ism. As a matter of fact, Col. John N. Taylor was urged by 
the martyred predecessor of Mr. Roosevelt, as well as the 
present executive clerk, to have Knowles, Taylor & Knowles 
Company take the order, not for any special reason of a per- 
sonal nature but because this company was a distinctly high- 
class American concern. Col. Taylor considered the matter 
at length in all its phases, but finally declined the order. 
The reason for this negation laid in the fact that the order 
demanded some $30,000 worth of ware of a peculiar pattern 
and decoration. All shapes must be distinctive and could not 
be reproduced either in design or decoration. The problem 
involved the creation of almost a new pottery on a small scale, 
or the relinquishment of a large part of current and profita- 
ble business. 
The result was that a polite declination of the business, 
with thanks for the consideration, was returned by the 
Knowles, Taylor & Knowles Company with the reasons for 
the decision appended, and the 
executive office, logically de- 
ducing that if the largest pot- 
tery in the United States could 
not handle the order there was 
little use in looking elsewhere, 
placed the order with the Wedg- 
wood people through an Al- 
bany jobber. — Glass and Pottery 
World. 
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CURIOUS OLD FLASKS 
here is an old wine mer- 
chant in New York who 
has a curious collection of old 
bottles. One, which he believes 
the oldest bottle used for hold- 
ing liquor in this country, came 
from Nassau, in the Bahamas, 
originally filled with snuff. It 
is made of a coarse, seaweed- 
colored glass, and is shaped 
somewhat like a chestnut stand- 
ing upright upon its broad end. 
There is a broad-bottomed bot- 
tle which held madeira in 
Charleston, in 18 to, and a Vien- 
nese bottle 125 years old, whose 
slender, graceful curves have- 
been supplanted to-day by a 
more commercial shape. The 
first American gin-bottle, from 
the Schuchadt estate, has a 
pouter pigeon shape, which is 
delightful to the eye. 
Among the later bottles are 
some which constitute the pro- 
duct of the bottle-maker's art 
when impressed glass came into 
use. On each side figures are 
moulded into the glass. There are a number of "railroad bot. 
ties." On one a wagon running on rails and drawn by a horse 
is depicted on both sides, with the motto "Success to the Rail- 
road." George Washington figures on one bottle, upon the 
reverse of which was Zachary Taylor, who, so says the glass, 
"never surrenders." A spread eagle and what appears to be a 
Masonic shrine, a fruit basket and horn of plenty, and two trees, 
one in leaf, the other bare, representing "summer" and "winter." 
A large round bottle, which in these days would contain Hol- 
land gin, is impressed with a series of monks at their prayers. 
