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Palissy. The lovers of artistic decoration lingcred over the 
display made by Deck, admiring not only the high chimney- 
piece, but the large plates and ornamental objects decorated 
by paintings from the hands of masters in the art. Their 
names, well known to connoisseurs, displayed on a large 
mural tablet in enduring enamels, are as follows : Messieurs 
Anker, Beniner, Colliu; Mademoiselle Escallier; Messieurs 
Gluck, Hirsch, Jullien, Legrain, Rannier, and Rieber. 
Parvillee, Leon, Paris, 1 Rue JSTeuve-Fontaine-St. 
Georges, at the angle of the Rue de Douai, exhibited a variety 
of decorative objects, vases, plates and platters in enamelled 
terra-cotta, in Persian patterns remafkable alike for brilliancy 
of colors and the sharp-dividing lines of the designs, the enam- 
’ eis being in high relief. The basis of these wonderfully-fine 
enamels is the red terra-cotta or earthenware. The designs 
have been obtained directly from Persian work and manu- 
scripts. The specimens attracted much attention from con 
noisseurs, and most of them were sold early in the season to 
the agents of the art museums of Europe. One of the linest 
examples—a vaso of peculiar form, with fall narrow neck and 
sculptured handles—was secured by a citizen of Boston for 
the Art Museum in that city. 
Interior Decoration in Enajmel. 
" M. Parvillee has executed many important works foy in 
terior decoration in the oriental style, and exhibited a port- 
. folio of*mauuscript designs in colors of the apartments which 
have been decorated by him with bis enamelled plaques and 
tiles. 
The enamels of M. Parvillee are opaque and have consider- 
able relief. The colors are extremely pure and clear, and 
are laid on with care,—the same precaution of drawing a 
dark dividing or marginal line between euch color, as in the 
specimen described from Choisy-le-Roi, being taken. In 
Parvillöe’s specimens, however, the enamels appear to ’ have 
been put directly npon the white earthenware paste with out 
glaze, which, apparently, was added afterwards for the in 
terior and edge of the vessel. 
If the large pieces of interior decoration are carried out