Among the numerous little exhibitions that are always being held in the Bow Street locality—many them, it is to be feared, with high hopes and. poor results—the display Walker's Gallery of pottery' by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Vyse is" parleularly interesting. He makes the bowls and vases, she applies the colour and glaze, and for this she. makes use of the ashes of all sorts of trees, and even -of tobacco ash carefully saved from the Savage Club on a Saturday night Mrs. Vyse believes that the richness and variety of the colours and However, they intend to return quite soon and see a little more of Shanghai before visiting Peking.
British Navy Entertained It was sad that the Juan Sebastian de Elcano had to depart so soon, just as her officers and "snotties were beginning to enjoy life here. Mr. Larracoechea's "reception for them at the Spanish Consulate on New Year's Day was their first off jclal introduction to Shanghai society. The affair did. not begin until after 10 o'clock in the evening and soon turned itself into a very pleasant informal dance. Everyone was relieved to find the Spanish Flee!
would carry on fluent conversations English, French or, of course, Spanish—a "fairly catholic choice for the accomplished linguists of Shanghai. Most of the nationalities were represented amongst the Consul's other guests. Dr. and Mrs. E. Birt, Lord Li and Mrs. Peter Li, Mrs.
'T. Chen, Marquis Cittadini Cesi, Dr. Thierry, Mr. Ambrose Congreve. Mrs. Harold Peake, Mr. Martin Snow and Miss Mercy Snow, Mr. and Mrs Synnerberg, the Misses Matilda and itala Chien and the Misses Lorna and Katherine Lucas being just a few of those present.
Many of the same -people attended Dr. and Mrs. Birt's "cocktail party also in honour of the Spanish Flee! on the following afternoon and the Spanish style of decoration in their charming home on Vu Yuen Road must have made their guests feel thoroughly at home. shading of the old Chinese porcelain was due to the makers having many more different sorts of trees to use for ash than we have now in England. She also says that in. deco Gent' times, for commercial reasons, they invented chemical compounds, Dut these never gave results equal to the wood ash to which "they always returned for the best work.
You will know more about the Chinese methods than Ido, but certainly Mrs, Vyse seems to get nearer their effects than most. porcelain makers. She uses, chiefly, apple ash, cherry, mulberry, holly, beech, and (with striking effect) oven the commonplace London plane tree; these, sometimes alone," sometimes mixed, and with them' she gets a wonderful range of tones from moonlight grey to crimson so dark most to look black from some angles. The whole effect is, of course, immensely heightened by her husband's exquisite and dignified modelling.
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