The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-02

given by the French officers in the America
Revolution TO Marth Washington specimens
or which are now in the National Museum.
The jugs are less conventional and more
attractive. One of particular interest was
the Salem witch jug. 1t is decorated with
the familiar witch, with broom in .,and in
pursuit of cats, against a ground of clouds,
In gilt and colors, and was made by the
Hampshire pottery OF Keene, N. II. 1t is
III the same style OF ware as the tourist
china, which is flooding the cheap jeweIry
shops and souvenir stores. The ROOkwood
pottery OF Cincinnati lis represented in it's
peculiar Understandable cOlors by several
artistic specimens. Heretofore the pottery
has confined patriotic endeavor to Indian
heads, but more recently il has iDdugUrated
series OF heads of patriots on its jugs and
with such success that it ma Y continue the
series.
Akin to the Jugs are the pitchers, and in
a collection of oddities it is not easy to
draw the line as to which is one and which
the other. They are quaint and fantastic
and might be b! e mugs as well as little
pitchers or medium sized jugs. Patriotic
pitchers are numerous, but such as are of
native manufacture are exceedingly rare.
But some of the latter are exceedingly hand
some.
Two of Dr. Benjaniin's are particularly
oDt is memorial
pitcher, with relief portrai Of the
nartyred President, made of a sage green
clay. with dull glaze, an early product of
the lockwood at Cincinnati. A day spent
among the potteries in East Liverpool re-
suited in the find Of Washington pitcher
made for the Worlds Fair. held IN Chicago
II represents n noble head OF Ws shineton
and the aperture in the colonial hat is
the mouth OF the pitcher. 1t is finely
The three cornered hat is black and the
cockade is gilded.
PATRIOTIC SMOKE BOWLS.
The many curious and interesting pipes
would arrest any eye They are pipe
collection in themselves, although they only
represent enc class and are single divi-
sion OF II more extensive collection. There
is IA whole series OF terra Gotta pipe bowls
with heads of familiar Americans. One
shows Benjamin +. Eutler, with conspicu-
Gus eyes, one squinted, of course and spoons
Oh either side. There are number of
others with caricatured tea DIS in the same
style, of James Gordon Bennett, IT., Joseph
Pulitzer, Peter Cooper. Charles A. Dana.
Whitelaw Reid. Dr. T. Dewitt Talmage,
and William NJ. Tweed. Five more are
caricatures of rational personalities, not
of individuals.
These were made by A. Peyrau," said
DR.. BENJAMIN, displaying his treasures.
He was. as his name Indicated French
man, but he worked in New York. and thus
i feel from the character OF the designs
tia. they should have place in an American
collection He had an erratic career. He
had prosperous business and his pipe
bowls were found in nearly every Broad
way shop. But he gave up a prosperous
business TO return to his native village in
the South of France. On arriving there
he found a new generation grown up ard
his old friends gone. After few months
he wearied of the place and then came
back TO his adopted country. Times were
hard, and it was not easy to start in
business again. So he supported himself
for time by moldiDg his caricature heads
and now he has disappeared again. In
years to come. when his pipes will sell for
dollars instead of cents, who will re-
member their MAKER"
One of the cnriosities is a white clay
pipe with peculiar almost Moorish orna-
mentation on its deep but slender bowl
and bearing the name OF Henry Clay II is
called the Henry Clay pipe. Tie doctor
has not found IL easy to trace its history,
bur he says ffat he has rea son to believe
thatit was Originally Of Austrian make ard
bore the features OF some DISTINGUISHED mill
tary hero. Specim ems came TO t:,is country
and Brooklyn pipcmaker siirewdly copied
the design and inserted the head of Clay
instead of the namelcss foreigner.
Another white clay represents the Capi-
tol. 1t is modest. but interesting. and has
its value by association with the others.
beautiful pipe bowl is made of Virginia
red clay, ia the form of an Indian calumet.