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EXPOSITION AT VIENNA.
rated iron-stone China clinner Services at from 60 to 80 florins
the set (|30 to $40) ; a fern pattem set for six persons for 85
florins ($42).
v Doultox, H., & Company, 28 High Street, Lambeth, Lon
don, exhibited an interesting and important series of "blue
metallic clay goods ” for pavings, copings, ridge-tiles, chaii-
nellings, and curbings, and for use in buildings where extra
strength is required. Also, a collection of artistic stone-ware
mugs, jars, flagons, etc. These last were especially interest
ing as cxamples of what may be accomplished with the cheap-
est and commonest materials in artistic hands. The objects
ivere very pleasing, and the prices moderate. Each article is
hand-made, and, while it is soft, designs are drawn upon the
surface with a sharp-pointed style, leäving a deeply-incised
line, into which the faintly-colored salt glazing flows and fills
it flush with the surface. The designs consist chiefly of
biids, animals, and flowers. Twenty or thirty arlists are
employed, and the articles produced are in great demand. '
For this manufacture, the clays of Devonshire and Dor-
chester, with the sand of Woolwich and of Charlton, are
chietly used. dhe clays are simply dried and broken up,
and mixed with the sand in proportione determined by the
quality of the wäre desired. The paste, after kneading and
beating to secure complete mixture and solidity, is passed
between cast-iron rollers. The objects are burned with coal
in open kilns of the Staffordshire pattem, and are glazed with
salt.
A good collection of this pottery can be seen at the rooms
of the Household Art Company, Boston.
FRANCE.
The French section afforded an exccllent aperpu of the
condition of the ceramic art in that country. Thcre were
many exhibitors, each producing some special forms or char-
acters ot wäre. Although there was an abundance of deco-
rated porcelain, there was a stronger and more strikiug repre-
sentation of artistic enamelled faience, majolica, highly-
colored wall tiles, and imitations of the wäre of Bernard
