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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 cur- 
rants, 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.—Manu- 
facturer of artistic faience and paintings upon faience, imita- 
tions 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 set- 
ting 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 pur- 
pose. 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.