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Show AMERICAN POTTErtV. Tl. Hu.rlt la Almn.t u toMly M llnttkwiMMl. American pottery has few peers In these days of Souvotta and Itookwood and the pale, pearly, exqulsltoly tinted glaxe ware shown In audi graceful delimit, de-limit, says the New York Commercial Advertiser, The Bouwelsa la flrat cousin cou-sin to Hook wood, but a poor relation, aa It cotta about half as much aa do the aymphonlts In polished greena and browns. It baa the same finish, the same designs and tones, but seems to lack the richness of Itookwood, although al-though the dllerence would not be perceptible per-ceptible to the person porfectly sane on tho question ot bric-a-brac. The enthusiast csa tell the difference In the dark, sin says. The pale-tinted American pottery Is highly polished nnd the flowert of the decoration seem to bloom mistily through tho glaio, like flowers seen tarougn a frosty window-pane. window-pane. A hlth-thouldered Jar of this ware Is softly ihaded from palest blue at the top, where It forms a background back-ground for a graceful roae-hued Iris, the long, pale trcen sterna of which stand nut delicately agalnat the mlaty gray below. |
