The World's Columbian Exposition 1893. Chicago, U.S.A. 1893
Official Catalogue With Illustrations issued by the Royal Danish Commission

24 DENMARK at the International Exposition in Paris 1889, Den kgl. Porcellæns- fabrik (Phe Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory) attracted the atten- tion of all connoisseurs. French critics placed its products on a level with those of their own country which means the highest praise they know of. The artists of this manufactory have been able to reproduce impressions from the shores of Denmark, from its animal and vegetable worlds by the use of soft and harmoniously combined glazing tints, each object being a separate work of art individually appertaining to the personality of the artist. It is under the management of Mr. Philip Schon, tit. councellor of Slate, as its director, that the manufactory has arrived at its present flourishing state, and has got a staff of skillful artists as its assistants, men as professor A. Krog, Messrs. C. J. Lüsberg, G. Heilmann, etc. The first named has been appointed artistic director of the Works. The Danish ceramics are continually developing, as shown, f. i., by Mr. Herman Kahler of Næstved. Unfortunately the development in that direction, as in many others, is loo often checked by the smallness of our country. Still further ad- vancement is eagerly worked at, as is evident from the gill embossed leather work, exhibited by Messrs Bcrnh. Schroder, Nielsen dr Hansen, and from Mr. Doberck’s artistically hammered work. We shall especially call attention to the efforts lately made in the province of the trades connected with Danish book-mailers. The tendency nowadays of producing something beautiful in that line, too, has been taken hold of by Mr. F. Hen dr iksen, xylographer, who founded, in 1888, a So- ciety for promoting book-works. This association has been zealously at work, supported as it is by artists like Mr. H. Tegner and Mr. Th. Bindesbøll, and has already conferred no small benefit on the trades in question. This year it has started a school for the book-making trades. Il has arranged a collection of Danish book- work, lo be seen al this exposition, and has for that reason been kept apart below p. 6y as a section by itself.