PORCELAIN AND FAIENCE. 
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the manufacture in materials, form and ornamentation. 
There is an unceasing variety, and, apparently, no end of 
surprises in störe for amateurs and collectors. But it is not 
in porcelain alone that the Japanese potters attain excel- 
lence and variety. They produce f'aience and wäre resem- 
bling the finer sorts of terra-cotta, plain and enamelled. The 
exquisitely decorated faience of Satsuma was a surprise tö 
connoisseurs at Paris, in 1867. It was admired in London, 
at the Exhibition in 1871, and appeared in still greater 
variety of forms and decoration at Vienna. The potters 
seem also to be copyiug European " masters,” for they are 
making this wäre into forms to suit foreigners. Certain it 
is that, as the Jemand for any one of these varieties of 
wäre increases and large Orders have to be tilled, the care 
and detailed Lahor diminishes, and we lose that pains- 
taking and exquisite finish which is freely bestowed on a 
few select objects. Thus it is that older specimens of wäre 
are generally the most desirable. The same is true of the 
metal work and the ivory carvings. Quality must be sacri- 
ficed to quantity. 
The Japanese Commission, however, who had the respon- 
sibility of securing a proper representation, made judicious 
selectious and placed some of the choicest, as well as the 
more ordinary objects, before the jury. 
The list includes vases, white and blue, in red color, and 
in the deservedly admired celadon green; perforatcd work, 
enamelling in relief, egg-shell wäre, monochromatic and 
polychromatic decoration, decoration with flowers and fig- 
ures, and with laquer and gold. There were not only 
vases, but plates, bowls, sackie-bottles, sackie-cups and 
tea-pots in great varietj’; tiles, large decorated slabs, a 
fire-place and mantel, and dinner, breakfast and tea Serv 
ices, after European patterns. 
The Japanese porcelain, it is well known, is the hard, or 
pdte dur variety. It is, in general, highly vitreous, com 
pact and hard, but is tough and resists heat well. 
Amongst the many porcelain-making establishments in 
Japan, those of Sai-kio, Inari, Kutani, Owari* and Awadji, 
* Owari is in the Second District, Tokaido, and Awadji in the Seventh District, 
Nankaido. 
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