Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-04-24

The regular meeting of the art
department of the Womans Clup'
Mrs. C. A. Emmons, chairman, was
held at the home of Miss Caroline
KimbalI, in Kearny avenue, last
night. The hostess opened the pro-
gram. which was unusually inter-
esting with the following paper on
"China and Table Decorations .
Art has taken a bigger stand In
fchina and table decoration than IN
any other department of the home.
When more truly conceived and bet
Tor executed designs for furniture
for the dining room, came into be-
ing. it was natural that the appoint
ments for the table should follow,
fhe finer orddt OF things. So 1t is
that a critically artistic sense is put
10 work in the choice of table linens
silver, glass and china, and not alone
in the choice of these things but the
use of them after they are IN the
home.
Particularly is this true of china.
No applied art has advanced farther
in the last decade or two than the
one of fine china. Little pink roses
and sprawling sprays OF lowers are
A thing of the past. Patterns OIL
dignity suitable to their medium
that il To say a dish to have food
placed upon it is in universal use.
THE patterns make use of lowers
semi-conventionalized in their con-
.ception and actually decorate n
piece, making it a unit of beauty
in texture, form, pattern and color.
Not only must china be suitable
in pattern and shape to the furnl-
fire. that is used in the room, but
IL must accord equally well with the
linen upon which it is to be placed
and the silver is TO be used with IL.
IT is in this way that judicious
taste must be used throughout in
! the furnishing of the table. me
, dav Is gone when we buy each article
because it is pretty" and for no
other reason, This Is not such a
difHcult task as it might seem, Tor
the world is open to the buyer OF
table ware of all sorts. In the mat
ter of china alone, any possible taste
can be satisfied from that which re-
uuires the toughest kind OF potterys
in that which delights in China OF
, dalicate PROPORTIONS and beautiful
aiesign.
The history of china is an absorb
~ one. but with the little time L
I'VE, i can only give you a resume
il That pottery vas the life ana
nrk OF early, even, primitive times
all know, that it reached a hlgh
e of perfection in China, from
pncp the modern ware derives lts
me- is no less known. The motive
china, brings to mind the well
avn products of English patterns
~ of Dresden and Sevnes.
Closer to our own interest hes
q china in America. The early
u~nnufacture of china was a disap-
ointing thing, quite without the
ideals necessary to make OF an IN
dustry an art, because Englls
china was in a high state Of develop
ment. People naturally sent 10 ENG,
land for their table ware. This led
orr own manufacturers to use the
English mark, SO that u china
would sell In our own country. Late
in the nineteenth century, two pat
terms were started in this country
with the avowed purpose of produc-
ing American china that should mer-
A. a place on the finest tables and
gain a place on its merit instead Oh
on an English mark. =,
One of these patterns which Is
one of the largest in the world rs
located at East Liverpool, Ohio. IL
was started by two Englishmen, VIII
liam and Edward Bennett, nor
than seventy years ago. The other
one was started in our own state OF
. New Jersey by William Scott Lenox
at Trenton.
: He died a few years ago, just after
his last debt contracted to carry out
his ideals for American china had
7been paid. William Scott Lenox
started as a designer in an Amert-
can pottery. He fought to the finish
the adjustment of the English mark
used on American china when he
established his own potteries with
the moral and financial help OF a few
friends. who recognized in him q
man whom royalty would have en-
-couraged in days gone by. He had
not been working in his own potter
les more than a few years when he
became partially blind. A sorrow
Of which no greater could fall upon
an artist, dependent wholly upon his
ewes. A little later, his eyesight
failed him entirely and he became
partially paralyzed so that he had
to be carried to and from his beloved
potteries.