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EXPOSITION AT VIENNA.
Ti 11 err y-Poulin , manufacturers of porcelain and faience: dépôt., 48 Rue Caumartin, 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 passion-flowers, branches of currants, lilies, convolvulus, and hazel-nuts,—all remarkable for fidelity to nature in the drawing and coloring. The price of such sets complete is 400 francs.
Sergent: dépôt Avenue d’Orleans 106, Paris .—Manufacturer of artistic faience and painfings upon faience, imitations of the Pallisey ware, relief plaques and majolica.
Barbizet.— Majolica and imitations of Bernard de Palissy’s works.
Geoffroy. — Yellow and blue enamels, etc.
Slabs for Furniture.
Hour y , Jules, Paris. A specialty by this exhibitor is slabs of porcelain, with figures in relief covered with a transparent blue glaze. They are designed chiefly for setting in furniture, the tops and sides of caskets, and for tables. The glaze is thin on the high lights and collects iu the depressions, thus enhancing the effect of low relief. The process is like that for producing émail ombrant, hut the design 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 wiped 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, which is similar in treatment, for the tone of the blue was bright and pure and the design suited the purpose. It gives us an idea of what good things can be done without much labor. * * * I should like to see the English use their decorated porcelain in objects of use more than they do, for this exhibitor shows what can be done with it.”
The jury made Honorable Mention.