The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-10-08
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At the Pottery and Porcelain Exhibition
of the Pennsylvania Museum, held at Me
mortal Hall, Philadelphia, Nov, 1888, the
lockwood Pottery was awarded the First
Prize for Z" Pottery Modelled and Decor
ated," and the First Prize for Painting
Underglaze," and was the only ware in
competition whose Qualities of Form were
Specially Commended by the Judges,
MesSrs. JOSEPH L. BAILEY, w. z. 2. LONG
FELLOW, HENRY STEELE.
Outside of Japan and China we do not
know where any cOlOrs and glaZes are to
be found finer than those which come from
the Lockwood Pottery. The yellOWS,
green's, reds and browns are clear, bright
and strong, and of great depth and rich
ness in the tones, free alike from that cru
dity which Offends in almost all our home
products in this field, and from that
morbid air of green-and-yelloW melancholy
which the English factories at one time
made SO fashionable. In shapes, indeed,
novelty, unless obtained at the complete
sacrifice of beauty and reason, is no longer
possible, and the lockwood Pottery shows
good taste in adhering to the principles
which are the foundations of the system
of forms called classical, but it's managers
are well aware that these principles, hav-
ing their seeds in nature, are capable of
infinite development on normal lines, and
the result of their study IS shown in the
harmony, beauty and variety of the forms
which they give to the clay Clarence
Cook, in I" The Studio"
The pieces produced at the lockwood
Pottery rank among the best. They have
attracted the attention of connOisseurs
abroad, and the peculiar glaze known as
tiger eye" may be reckoned as a chef d.
@uvre of ceramic art. Despite the great
losses incurred in the first few years of its
existence it has never wavered from it's
| first object, that of producing a pottery
which should be credit to the country
| Prof. E. S. Morse, author of Japanese
| Homes"
| The art of Cincinnati has a good deal the
air of being indigenous and the outcome
in the arts of carving and design and in
music has exhibited native yigor. The
city has made itself a reputation for wood
carving and for decorative pottery. The
| lockwood Pottery, the private enterprise
| OF Mrs. Beliamy StOrer, is the only pottery
| in this country in which the instinct of
! beauty is paramount to the desire of profit.
Here for series of years experiments have
| been going on with clays and glazing, in
! regard to form and color and in decoration
purely for effect, which have resulted in
| pieces of marvellous interest and beauty.
| The effort has always been to satisfy re-
| fined sense rather than to ca ter to vici-
| Gus taste, or one for startling effects al
ready formed. l mean that the effort has
not been to suit the taste of the market,
but to raise that taste. The result is some
of the most exquisite work in texture and
color anywhere to be found, and l was glad
to learn that it is gaining an appreciation
| which will not in this case leave virtue to
| be its own reward Charles Dudley War
ner, in C Harper's Magazine"
The HAWAIIAN HARDWARE Co. are the
Honolulu Agents for the lockwood Pot
terry. 82-2t