Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-12-08
ANNUAL EXHIBITION.
Augusta China Club Exhibition in Uni
tartan ParIors, Yesterday.

The annual exhibition of the Augusta
China Club was held, yesterday, in
the parlOrs of the Unitarian
church on State street, and while
there We're only few exhibitors, the
show was a revelation. Last year the
club did not give an exhibition, be-
cause of various reasons, and many
Augusta people who have enjoyed the
exhibitions each year, We're greatly
disappointed. Thia year, however,
there was certainly no cause for any
disappointment, as the examples of
china painting shown in the church
parlors, yesterday, wou!d Homp,Ie
very favorably with the shows given
in the larger cities.
1t is impossible to give a detailed
description of each piece. or i'm fact,
each Individual exhibition. Mrs. Per-
sis Martin, the president of the club.
displayed 20 pieces, and her exhibit
was as usual of the highest excellence.
Several pieces in conventional work,
done by Mrs. Martin with Marshal
Frye of New York, the instructor in
Columbia University, were especially
noteworthy. Two magnificent vases,
salad bowl and n stein and pitcher,
of this kind of painted china that has
ever been shown by the club at any
of it's exhibitions. The two vases are
in dark, rich tints, and of what might
be called the imprissonist style. To
obtain the results shown, the pieces
are fired from eight to IL times and
the operation of playing them up is,
as might be supposed, an extremely
delicate one.
A scroll shaped orange bowl, done
in lustre and gold, occupied a prOmi-
nent place on Mrs. Martins table,
and surrounding it We're smaller pieces
of a like character. A tall and very
graceful vase, tinted in a pale grey and
ornamented with faint yellow roses.
was another beautiful piece that added
nightly to the attraction of Mrs.
Martins showing. Another piece
was a quaint card receiver, done in
high colors and gold, and resting on
an iron scroll stand. 1t was figured
with the Bodwell coat-Of-arms, and
very beautiful and original in design.
portrait of a Roman girl, encased
in gilt frame, constituted the re-
mainder of Mrs. Martins collection.
Mrs. Wallace n. Price showed 10
pieces, and all were unusually good in
conception and treatment of cOlors.
breakfast set in maize tint and bright
gold, traced in original design, was
the best of the collection, and other
pieces especially deserving of men,
ton, were a salad dish done in shells,
with individual dishes, cup and saucer
in raised paste and gold, with a design
of meadow violets, fine stein outlined
with ruby and gold scrolls, encasing
panels of currents. and all carefully
done over a background of dull black,
young rose picture frame, and a
shirt waist set of fOrget-me-nOts and
gold.
Mrs. w. B. Arnold of Waterville,
had large vase done i'm vivid cOlors
and figures. large red and gilt plaque.
a beautiful fiowerbowl, a richly orna-
mented stein. and a number of small
er pieces to the number of an even |
dozen. Mrs. Arnold's pieces We're all |
daintily executed, and very delicate in |
appearance.
Mrs. William G. BOothby exhibited |
20 pieces, and many of them were
very unusual in style and execution. |
A beautiful plaque, with a head of 4
summer girl, framed in gilt wood, |
tea brewer, an odd gold cup and sauc- |
er, and an ash tray We're some of the |
smaller pieces. Notable in this cOllec- |
ton was a queer vase, done on a WV |
id autumn brown background was a |
girls head; the coloring of the entire |
piece was so natural and beautiful, |
that it stood out apart from the rest |
of the entire exhibition. A drinking |
cup with cardinal Reading" was |
another piece in Mrs. Boothby's COL |