The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-01-15

or decoration. Fig. 10 shows group of
pieces made at the Bennington factory
between 1850 and 1855. In the center
may be seen a large Rockingham figure.
beneath which are two small mantel
ornaments of artificial porcelain. The
central pitcher above the dog and the
two small pitchers to the right are white
granite, decorated in gold. The three
remaining pitchers and the small vase
are Parian, with Ornamentation in re
lief.
THE United States Pottery was closed
in 1851, and two years later Mr. Fenton,
with Mr.. Decius w. Clark, his former
superintendent, went to Peoria, ILL.,, and
there established a mandatory of white
and granite wares. Alter a period of
three years this experiment proved f.
nancial failure, and the factory passed
into other hands. At present it is being
successfully operated by the Peoria Pot
terry Company, which makes a fine grade
of similar goods"
The Rockingham Monument is also
illustrated as No. 8, in the Monthly. IL
lustration No. 10, consists of six pitchers
of various skies, decorated, vase, u
statue, and dog of Bennington ware.
1t is indeed an unique collection and we
understand some of our citizens, DR..
Wilcox, G. b. Sibley and others, are col
lecting another lot to send to Mr.. Lyman
w. Clark for further illustration in the
series. Probably many of our readers
have never given the Buckingham
Monument thought-hardly glance.
1t stands in front of the residence of
Capt. Albert Walker and Capt. Henry ID.
Fillmore on Pleasant street, and is
worth a careful scrutiny. Not only the
frame work, which is of pottery ware, is
finely done. but the Madonna and child
is well formed. Mr. Clark is son of
the Decius Clark mentioned in the arti-
Gle aed is well known to our readers.
One pitcher of the "Fenton make"
that is in the collection is of the Parian
ware noted above. Besides this Mr.
Sibley has two pieces that he made him
self and one of which he presented to
the lady who afterwards became his
wife. The article before us is too long
for Il ansference to our columns, but the
author, Edwin Atlee Barber, and the
Popular Science Monthly publishers are
doing a great thing in these articles.
From them we learn why the old United
States Pottery (prObably) succumbed,
even after attaining the eminence and
excellence of its manufactures. After
1910 the number of potteries i'll the
United States multiplied rapidly. This
industry experienced the Quotations of
the tariff of the two decades Immediately
preceding the war that other lines of
trade did. The clay used in Bennington
was brought from South Carolina and
New Jersey Potteries were established
about Trenton and these saved the
freight on the raw materials that our
pottery were obliged to pay, and were
the better able to stand Quotations Incl
dent to tariff and free trade. The inevita-
bic took place, and the grounds on which
the Graded school building stands are
not now the seat of this once flourish
ing industry. At the present time there
are over five hundred potteries in this
country, not including architectural
terra-cotta and tile works, of which
some twenty-five are in Trenton, n. j.,
and about the same number in East
Liverpool, Ohio.