Identifier: crockeryglassjou78newy (find matches)
Title: Crockery & glass journal
Year: 1875 (1870s)
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Subjects: Pottery Glass Glassware
Publisher: New York : G. Whittemore & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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with a genuine Chinese porce-lain set made in England. At this time nearly the wholeof English ceramic design was dominated by the fascin-ation of the aristocracy to have something essentiallyChinese in which to partake of their tea, which cost aguinea a pound. One had only to go into a local museumto find a little square tea caddy, of Chinese inspiration,made about this time. But one would say immediately,I know that was made by an Englishman. Why? Well,he made the caddy all right, but did not know then whatto put on for its legs. So he put on four lions heads.The joke of the incident was that the lions heads werebetter than the Chinese. In short, it was an attempt tospeak in Chinese to an English-speaking race. Continuing, the speaker said he had not time to go stageby stage through the evolution of English pottery, butthere was another period that was extremely amusing,and that was when South Kensington took up the ques-tion of seriously attempting to educate the nation in art. 77
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Orul^ Japanese. 179 A professor from Soulli Kensington—generally an artcritic—was brought dou n to a place like Stoke to instructthe poor potters in the subject of art, and in order to doso resprteil to a process of deductive reasoning in regardto color combinations. Hut in their process of reasoningas to what particular colors were harmonical and whichwere not, they curiously enough overlooked that naturedid all sorts of irregular things, such, for instance, as put-ting a gorgeous blue flower upon a greien leaf. Fortun-ately all that was dead now, but one occasionally cameacross errors quite as great in art criticisms. People of-ten thought they were inveighing against the unreal inart by suggesting that a landscape painting should not beput upon a plate because by a process of logical reason-ing a beefsteak could not be eaten from the top of a land-scape. Well, could it be from the top of a rose, for thematter of that? Such a process of reasoning would prob-ably contine the deco

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