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EXPOSITION AT VIENNA.
Thierry-Poulin, manvfaclurers of porcelain and faience:
depöt, 48 Iiue Gaumartin, Paris.—This establishment,
among other objects, exhibited dinner-services in white
faience, decorated in brilliant colors with flowers and leaves
of the natural size, such as passiou-flowers, branches of currants,
lilies, convolvulus, and hazel-nuts,—all reniarkable for
fidelity to nature in the drawing and coloring. The price of
such sets complete is 400 fraucs.
Sergent : depöt Avenue d’Orleans 106, Paris.—Manufacturer
of artistic faience and paintings upon faience, imitations
of the Pallisey wäre, relief plaques and majolica.
Barbizet.—Majolica and iraitations of Bernard de Palissy’s
works.
Geoffroy.—Yellow and blue enamels, etc.
Slabs for Furniture.
Houry, Jules, Paris. A specialty by this exhibitor is
slabs of porcelain, with figures in relief covered with a
transparent blue glaze. They are designed chicfly for setting
in furniture, the tops and sides of caskets, and for
tables. The glaze is thin on the high lights and collects in
the depressions, thus enhancing the etfect of low relief.
The process is like that for producing email ombrant, but
the dcsign is the reverse, being raised instead of depressed.
The British artisan (Locke) in describing this work says:
" The slabs are modelled in stems and leaves in low relief
and then covered with a beautiful blue glaze; the color is
iviped off the high parts of the modelling and looks as if
the light had fallen across it and the blue falls into the
shadows. It must not be compared with the majolica made
in England, Avhich is similar in treatment, for the tone of
the blue Avas bright and pure and the design suited the purpose.
It gives us an idea of what good things can be done
Avithout much labor. * * * I should like to see the En»--.
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lish use tlleir decorated porcelain in objects of use more
than they do, for this exhibitor shows what can be done
Avith it.”
The jury made Honorable Mention.
