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saggers, like china-ware, and with fully as much care. The kilns are 
in all respects like the china-ware kilns of East Liverpool. The tiles 
are sold in the biscuit state or are glazed, plain colored or majolica. 
Some tiles are also enameled and carved by hand designs, ete.; this class 
of work is yery expensive, as all really artistic work is. The working 
force of men employed is large, but the management are so far enabled 
to keep all the important points of the work under their own immediate 
charge, so that an attempt to learn the secret of the trade from the work- 
men would be fruitless. A good illustration of the way in which a 
successful venture is copied may be seen here in Zanesville, where a rival 
stock-company has been formed, and is starting out with nothing but 
money to rely upon in a difficult technical art, like that of making 
encaustic tiling. 
ORNAMENTAL POTTERY. 
Another establishment, the only one of its kind, and reflecting 
equal credit on the State, is the celebrated Geo. Ward Rookwood pot- 
tery, of Cincinnati. It is owned by Mrs. Nichols, and is under the 
management of Mr. Cranch. It is devoted entirely to the production of 
ornamental pottery. Both mo!ded and turned wares are manufactured 
in great variety, from the antique to the most modern styles. In decora- 
tion there is also equal range, over-glaze, under-glaze and smear-glaze 
decoration being all carried on, and some vase gilding as well. ‘The 
artists employed are each of them specialists of a high rank of excellence. 
Among them, Miss McLaughlin’s work in particular is sought after, and 
she is credited with being the inventor of the style of decoration called 
the Cincinnati faience. The elegant wares made at this place take rank 
side by side with the best of foreign production. 
TERRA CoTTA. 
Terra Cotta is divided into two kinds—useful and ornamental. 
The useful kinds are chimney-tops and flues. The ornamental forms 
are lawn vases, fountains, statuary, etc. 
There is room for the exercise of taste and skill in making some of 
these higher grades of wares. 
The flues and chimney-tops are made on ordinary sewer-pipe presses, 
either with or without a socket. Square flues are made by putting on 
