RERAMIC STUDIO 
PYROGRAPHY 
TREATMENT FOR SALAD BOWL (Page 283) 
K. Liveri)iorc 
THE design shown is for an octagonal shaped nut, or salad 
bowl (if it is to be used for nuts, the peas should be 
omitted and an arrangement of nuts substituted). 
Burn the outlines in strong, flowing lines — put in any 
desired background — if color is desired keep to the dull reds 
and greens, as they are much more harmonious with the 
burned wood than brighter colors; the brownish green of 
Olive Green (water color), and either Light Red or Brown 
'Madder are particularly good. If a warm yellowish tone is 
desired in the lighter parts of the background put a thin wash 
of Yellow Ochre over it. 
This bowl should be finished with "japalac," or some 
similar high grade varnish, as the moisture from the salad will 
injure the bowl; the outside can be waxed if desired. 
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ART SALES 
At Delmonico's Winter Garden Mr. Charles E. Smith 
sold at auction the last part of a large collection of Chinese 
porcelains. The prices obtained were fair to good. The 
total realized for the three days' sale was $20,335.50. 
The last and concluding afternoon's sale of the Sadajiro 
Yamanaka collection of old Chinese embroideries and tapes- 
tries took place at the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries. Mr. 
James P. Silo was the auctioneer. The attendance was large 
and 159 lots sold for a total of $6,014. This, added to the 
totals of the two preceding days' sale, $7,645.50, makes a grand 
total of $13,659.50 
Mr. Thomas E. Kirby sold the last and third part of the 
Frederick W. Hunter collection of Oriental porcelains at the 
American Art Galleries. There was a good attendance of 
buyers and some very good prices were obtained. The total 
of the sales was $16,315.50, for 653 lots. 
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MINERAL ART CLUB OF DENVER 
THE open meetings of the Mineral Art Club of Denver have 
been very delightful both from an educational and en- 
tertaining point of view. 
The first meeting was devoted to the china of the White 
House. The paper by Mrs. Worth Osgood read some time 
ago before the N. L. M. P. on the White House china, was 
read by Mrs. Keezer who also gave a description of the new 
White House service, placed through Mrs. Theo. Roosevelt 
and executed through the firm of Van Heusen Charles Co., 
of Albany, N. Y. Through the courtesy of that firm the 
service illustrations were shown the club. Patriotic and ap- 
propriate music was rendered. 
The second open meeting of the club was held at the 
home of Mrs. J. B. Farish, the afternoon of January 20. Not 
only was the meeting delightful in a social way, but education- 
ally it was most interesting. The program was devoted to 
Russian art and ceramics and Russian music was interspersed 
throughout. Following Mrs. Warren's paper on " Russian 
China" there was an informal discussion of the subject, and 
Mrs. Farish displayed her many beautiful curios and told 
something of their history. A maid in Russian peasant's cos- 
tume served tea from a beautiful samovar, and all caught the 
spirit of the occasion. An excellent musical program, in which 
Mr. Jaffa, Mrs. Lotz and Mrs. Cullis participated, was greatly 
enjoyed. 
The third open meeting of the club will occur in March. 
The 14th annual spring exhibition will occur early in 
May. Ida Miller Warren, 
Sec'y M. A. Club. 
A very important article on the Willow Pattern, by Mrs. 
Mary Churchill Ripley, will be found in April " Old China." 
Lack of space prevents us from publishing it in KERAMIC 
Studio. The price of one copy of " Old China " is 20 cents. 
♦ 
A circular from Weber & Co. gives notice of a catalog 
about to be issued by them of a new line of Pyro Relief 
Blanks. These blanks are partly carved and partly executed 
in relief thus paving the way for the novel combination of 
carving and burning securing a more permanent place in the 
line of real art. 
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TREATMENT OF CURRANT STUDY 
(Supplement to Keramic Studio for March 1903) 
Mrs. Teana McLennan Hinman 
This study is painted on tinted paper which is manufactured especially for the 
work in solid or opaque color. The original was much more brilliant and effective 
than the reproduction so I would advise a close study of the black and whitestudy 
published in the February number of the Keramic Studio as well as the colored one, 
rly the light and shadows and the 
1 lie a great help and 
ished 
as the black and white one shows more cte; 
colored one the color. In the drawing the bl. 
it is necessary to have in this study rather a 
charcoal as it is more easily erased and may, 
dusted leaving a faint outline which still sho\ 
made, give the currants in mass a wash of carmi 
shadow side; on the light side a wash of carmir 
tone and carefully touch in with the shadow colo 
rants, this giving the whole the first idea of the 
washed in with a thin wash of Hooker's green a 
yellow, Payne's grey, Prussian blue are washed in 
are next washed in with Indian and lemon yello 
brown pink and burnt sienna. The background 
and thus far no white has been used. The white 
and most brilliant currants, using Chin* 
little I 
careful drawing 
before the color is applied, be lighte- 
rs after the first wash. The drawing 
irmine and Van Dyke brown on the 
•mine and safflower. Keep the half 
:olorafew of the most noticeable cur- 
Hiding. The leaves are then 
while this is still wet Indian 
: shadows. The whitecurran ts 
nd here and there a touch of 
1 is in wash using the same colors 
; may now been used in the lighter 
hite, Safflower, vcrmillion and a 
THE DEDHAM OR CHELSEA PLATE 
A suggestion for a rarebit set 
: lemon 
yellow. 
Fo 
r the dark bunchi 
;s use 
Vane 
lyke t 
irown, a little Payne's 
and bt 
irnt sienn 
a w 
ith the 
white. Fc 
.r the 
pale y 
ellow 
use lemon. The leaves 
e shad. 
aws rem a 
in almost 
transparer 
it. Ii 
1 thel 
ights 
Hooker's green, white, 
aid gre 
en and let 
non 
yello v 
i are used. 
In tl 
le very 
dark 
est shadows a touch of 
line hel; 
ps the har 
moi 
ny and 
produces a 
dens. 
:bro« 
■n tha 
t is necessary. Use the 
r freely 
avoiding 
use 
of too 
much paint 
, it is 
much 
simpler to deepen the shad- 
if necessary thar 
1 to 
wash 
them out. 
The 
study 
may 
be drawn and painted 
larger using paper 11 by 14. 
