Interesting Eo hibition.
At the well-known firm of Kuhn and Komor, there is at present exhibited 2 small collection of St. Armand Coram by Nils de Barck, which is well worth inspection.
The father of the modern French Ceramie is Jean Carries, who died ten yea ago. This highly-gifted man was not on! 'a master of the pottery-making, but l-0 an excellent sculptor. In the heart of France, between the Loire and Youne, lies the hilly country of Puisaye, renowned hundreds of years before the time of the old Romans for its fine pottery clay. The principal centre is the small town of St. Armand-en-Juisaye, with about 3,000 in-h: bitants; and here Carries took up his abode, for ten sears experimenting to re. gain for the modern European ceramic the brilliant and fine colours of the old Japanese. The pottery of St. Armand is the hardest possible, the burning of which destroys most colouring matters. On china, for instance. which is only exposed toa heat of 800 to 1,100 degrees, one may burn in nearly any colour, and receive any true colour copy. Should, however, the colour matter not withstand the heat, one can put it on after the first burning, and burn the piece over again. This is the case with most of the ceramic goods in the market, even with the reowned products of Bigot, Delaherche, Dalpayrat, and others.
The Japanese finished their pieces with one burning, and to be able to do this they needed a colouring matter that could be exposed to a heat of 1,700 to 1,800 degrees. What this was we only know toa emall extent. Carries never succeeded in getting any other than a yellow or brownish colour. His most prominent, not to say only, follower, the Swedish artist-potter, Nils de Barck, has, through his ex-Bre or siz years, been able to add to these eriments at St. Armand during the last
a brown-reddish and grey-green-bluish colouring, It ma~ be mentioned that Nils do Barek, besides his pottery-making, is also a talented artist who has contributed many pictures to the Paris salon.
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