Under the auspices of the American Woman's Club, Mrs, J. B. Fearn on Tuesday afternoon delivered s highly i ive lecture on Interest in the subject was manifested by the large assembly, the majority of whom were ladies.
Mrs. Fearn prefaced het _lectare by glance into the past as far back 5 3,800 years B.C. when a band of pilgrims, asked and homeless, crossed. the River Oxas from Babylonia, and the region about the Caspian Sea and settled in the forest of Shansi. The speaker next proceeded to point out that occasionally the earth's irrigation had brought to light priceless tressares of great antiquity. For example those sepalchral has-reliefs of the Han Dynasty which were unearthed in the seventeenth century in the province of fact. aot only in China, but in Japan and Korea, and they resembled in form and fabric the prehistoric pottery of other. parts of the world.
Dealing with the various colonra of porcelain and the method of application, the speaker next directed her attention to the various processes adopted la the manufacture. Very clearly she outlined the manner used in glazing and the general characteristics of duced in different dyoastics, and: the sadience appeared especially interested when Mrs. Fearn la concladiog her lecture gave some very usefal and practical hints to aid the collector in determining the age and genuineness of porcelain.
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