KERAMIC STUDIO 
MRS. MARY C. WALTERS 
DUQUESNE CERAMIC CLUB 
THE Duquesne Ceramic Club, whose membership embraces 
many cities and towns of Western Pennsylvania, has for 
several years past made a remarkable growth. 
Better than ever before was the exhibition, the twenty- 
third, which opened in the Carnegie Galleries. This Club 
has been steadily gaining during the past few years, until its 
work is worthy to compete with similar work anywhere. 
Prof. Herbert Kniffin of the University of Pittsburgh has 
directed the class in design for three years. The class has met 
for instruction every second week for ten years. 
Among the beauties of the collection is a rectangular vase 
by Mrs. V. Lockwood Williams, which received first mention 
for excellence of technique. The design is a conventionalized 
dandelion leaf and flower in dull golds and greens with a touch 
of scarlet. A very striking plate in dull red, gold, blue and 
green, by Miss Anne Mclntyre, received second mention in 
technique, and Miss Mclntyre also carried off second honors 
for coloring, with a bowl in cream, dark blue and green. A 
lovely little teapot in yellow luster, by Mrs. Ray E. Motz, 
received third mention in technique. 
A graceful vase on which the dragon fly is skillfully con- 
ventionalized in salmon and indeterminate shades of blue and 
green, on a ground of creamy white, done by Albert J. Rott, 
took first honors in color. Mrs. L. Stephenson Price, with a 
large vase in rich dark browns and greens, with tan and cream, 
received third mention for coloring. 
Awards for excellence in design went to Miss Maud Chapin, 
who received first mention for a jardiniere in blue and cream 
and brown; Miss Mary C. Walters, second mention, for an 
Egyptian bowl, and Miss Ella Faber, third, for a tea set, whose 
blue and gold bands follow the lines of the china. 
A salad set in pale green, blue and buff, by Mrs. Anna 
Mclntyre, deserves mention also, as does also the rose jar in 
salmon and green by Miss Edith Silliman; a large plate by Miss 
Sadie Kier; a vase in grey greens by Mrs. Kolgel; a Satsuma 
jar in green and lavender by Miss Nettie Breitweiser; a vase 
and bon-bon, by Miss Nettie Davis; a luncheon set in reds and 
greens, by Miss Jeannette Negley; a bowl in gold and white, 
by Miss Alice McQuaide of Greensburg, and a Satsuma bowl, 
by Miss Leda Harrison of Springdale. A bowl in reds and 
greens, by Mrs. D. Horton Lutz of Clairton, and a jardiniere 
by Mrs. Byron Mitchell both mentioned for good coloring. 
The judges were: J. Valentine Kirby, head of the art 
department of the Pittsburgh schools; Vincent P. Sollom of 
the School of applied design in the Carnegie Institute of Tech- 
nology, and Miss Merrill of the Margaret Morrison Carnegie 
School. Miss Myra Boyd is president of the club. 
