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


full purpose as Well.
PORCELAIN LIBERTY BELL.
A Trenton pottery was commissioned 10
execute tue oruer, and aioer seVeidi iiiohths
or experimenting produced design IN
teiieen porcelain which surpasses III quail
ity ana resonance OF tone anything OF The
Kind that has ever been mau. IN Europe.
The original intention wds 10 produce 4
Deil i'll exact limitation OF TIE oiu Dell, both
in design aud color, and a mali a hundred
designs We're made III a brouZe covered
boay, but tue cost OF production III Tins
sty,r was found II "r tou great 10 peTiitls oi
their SAFE at a popular price. II Is through
such memorials a. Inis that American p.
t.rs will be enabled to show their apinty
TO compete with foreign manufactures
and patIIu;!stn viii De PROMOTED among Ia.
people.
Tie William Penn loving cup is WORTHY
OF mention as IL graceful piece or ware As
well as an appropriate design. IL is 1T
ting that the man who founded the City OF
BroCherly Love should be commemorate
in u loving cup. 1t is III delft blue decorated
between tic three handles with PORTRAIT
of william Penn, the Penn cottage in Phil
adeiphia and the Penn coat OF arms.
Il have always believed said DR..
Renjamir IN the refining influence Us
well as the patriotic, historic and CONNER
cial value OF china collecting as a worthy
diversion for men and women alike. Bui
because of their exceptionally VlvacioUs
interest in progressive patriotism and
their extensive leisure 10 cultivate the
subject, 1 have urged the women to take
hold Of the American pottery work ana
push our products to Respectable poSiuon
Among the international outputs.
A WORK FOR WOMEN.
.'Their present leisure and interest az
fords an opportunity which, it seems to me,
if wisely developed will result i'll the crea-
ton OF an art industry that VIII De OF
permanent value to the nation.
AT the beginning of my researches Tor
american pottery, decorated with MS
toric subjects, 1 found an almost entire ADJ
sence of such things. In washington thele
are views of the public buildings, historic
spots and monuments, out they were elther
inferior r were printedon foreign ware In
Baltimore, cups and saucers with views OF
the well-known monuments or that city
were on sale but they were OF English
manufacture Souvenirs OF Niagara were
plentiful at that resort, but those that were
pottery invariably had the label made in
Austria or else where on the under side. A
similar state of affairs obtained at the
worlds Fair in Chicago. Throughout
New England pitchers, plates and tiles
abound with views or historic sites, put
they are of foreign make.
"Of course every one knows that things
made abroad have a peculiar attractive
ness for the average American woman, but
il is not very patriotic in them to help sup
port foreign industries at the expense OF
our own. The splendid example of Mr.. Bel
lamy storer and Miss jamie Mclaughlin,
of Cincinnati, and of the various pottery
clubs throughout this Union, whose beauti-
full exhibits in the woman's building at Chi
cago were abundant evidence OF the aoil-
ity of our American women to produce ar
tisti C pottery. Did not the HOLLYWOOD pot
tery-tbe dist net product of an Ameri-
can woman's gcpius-gain the prize over
other exhibitors at the worlds fair held In
Paris q few years ago?
..Surcly there is no reason why the women