Art and Handcraft in the Woman's Building
of the World's Columbian Exposition
Forfatter: Maud Howe Elliott
År: 1893
Forlag: Goupil & Co.
Sted: Paris and New York
Sider: 287
UDK: gl. 061.4(100) Chicago
Chigaco, 1893.
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IN THE WOMAN’S BUILDING.
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A later piece may be mentioned in this connection, a punch-bowl,
yellow body, with dragon.
These enthusiastic women, believing in themselves, and foresee-
ing in the future work for many hands, brought clays from distant
parts of the State and built suitable kilns for their firing.
A pottery club was organized in 1879, which has been one of
the active instrumentalities in the advancement of many branches
of decorative work. The
decoration of the Pottery
Club shows some of the
best work of Cincinnati
women. Miss McLaugh-
lin, president of this club,
discovered the decorative
process of the Limoges
Faience, specimens of
which will be found in
the exhibit of the Cincin-
nati Pottery Club. Mrs.
Bellamy Storer was early
in the field of decoration
.and experiments; her
talents were varied and
her taste individual.
The work of the la-
dies was, much of it,
fired, and their experi-
ments made at one of
the leading potteries,
where some simple ar-
rangements were made
for their accommodation.
The progress of the work
soon outgrew the facili-
LARGE GOBLET OF ETCHED GLASS.
Hilda Petterson. Sweden.
ties afforded at the pot-
tery, and in the autumn
-of 1880 Mrs. Storer established her own pottery in one of the
suburbs. The success of “ Rookwood Pottery,” both in an artistic
and a commercial sense, may be regarded as the most perfect
realization of decorative art in clay in the United States; the
result of a woman’s taste, skill, and perseverance, from the initial
.step until it reached a period of commercial success. Mrs. Storer’s