The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-07
THE LATEST sIERAMIC FAD.
Collections of ChinS which Have Been
Here Over;a Century.
New York Evening Host

New YORK Evening HoSt.
Patriotism and kerass nics have been united
by many Of the cleveI women in this coun-
try, who now make 4 speciality OF collect
ing china, porcelain and earthenware
which has been in 9le United States for
more than hundred years. The field Is
much larger and msre difficult than APP
pears at sight The very age shuts OUT
thousands of specimfns which are eagerly
sought for by ordinary cohectors- Inc GIL
ficulty TO the lover OK the antique is great
because most of thesowners Of these pre-
cious wares refuse Ito part with them.
There are several OBJECTIONS in New York
which are of unusual size and interest:
In one there has 4een special effort
towards the accommodating Of Indian, Zuni.
Maya, Aztec and Ttltec wares. Most Of
these are made off simple earthenware
decorated in black and other dull colors'
and only few have any glaze.
OF the second class are the many kinds
of tableware brought over by settlers III
the seventeenth ands eighteenth centuries.
The modern age Is apt 20 overlook the SIM
pie fact that in the :old days all keramlc
goods were harder e. get and more expen-
sive than at the present time Emlgrants
carried tableware with them. where TO-DAY
they bring merely cl6 thing and money. The
Pilgrims and PuritarsI brought out Engllsn
and Dutch ware; thef Huguenots seemed 70
have possessed the finest taste In TINS Ines
and imported to this country faDrlcs from
the kilns of France end Italy. The hniek-
erbockers were staIIch patrons OF Delft
Leyden, and other establishments IN me
Netherlands. The PfldllneS Oh New 4OANs
who afterwards movtd 10 New Jersey ana
Pennsylvania, betrayed their love OF the
Rhineland by a goojly assortment OF the
heavy dark, giazeCs pottery which pre-
vailed in that district in the first hall OF
the eighteenth century.
This love of home rTas manifested oy tns
Spanish settlers in California, Mexico, anu
Louisiana and Florida, who, amid tneI
household goods. had many delicate bits OK
the fine wares of SpsSn. Rarest OF all were
Scandinavian goods conveyed 10 the new
world by the Swedesf and Films, VINO cane
here In the seventeenth century. NOT more
than two hundred pieces are known 10 &c
in existence to-day. siost OF wnicn ar nese
in Philadelphia and other Pennsyivahl1
communities In the third class are me
goods turned out blythe colonial and post
revolutionary American potteries. Oh tnese
there were at least ben In operation aIIO-
gether which had Ia fair output Inc Inc
workmanship was rather clumsy, aithoussi
now and then designs are encounteIs.u
which possess considerable crude merit
Some of these are nosy held in the Wioen n.,
Ives Morgan. and sSorer collections. nc &c
prices paid for these goods are fahSlIA, =.
the extreme. A cups and saucer oei0hsl..sS,
TO Winthrop Standtsh. or BRADFORD VIII VII
easily bring from sd TO 500. while peits
bowl OF the Knicferbocker patroohs,
cheap at 800. Evea when these anCleEs
creations are cracked and broken my
still retain value al curios. The arr %
repairing has beconts a veritaole sclehss;
and a mass OF fragments can De fese1.
TO pristine shape so completely as 70 snO"
few signs of the orisinal accident