THE POTTER’S ART.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 313, 7 November 1929, Page 1

THE POTTER’S ART.

FASCINATING EXAMPLES. Gardens and Furniture. Women who have taken up pottery as a profession are finding a great demand for the dainty studies of flowers and foliage in which so many of them now specialise.

The tiny flower groups vary considerably in treatment. We have the miniature garden-plot with pinks, lilies, sweet William and roseS; we have the garden-basket brimming over with various blossoms; and we have the replica, in Lilliputian proportions, of the window-box, which is delightful, in a series, for table-decoration.

It is becoming the fashion to “ collect' 1 these tiny flower sets % and so fragile are they that cabinets fitted with small overhead electric bulbs have been specially designed to accommodate them

Then there are charming miniature replicas of antique furniture, many of the pieces having been copied from originals, in public collections. Tiny oak chests arc used as stamp boxes, and small cabinets for cigars and cigarettes. Nursery mantelpieces are likewise adorned with minute four-poster beds and Chippendale suites, in the fond hope that such ornaments may foster good taste in the children. Fascinating are the miniature presentations of old Bristol table glass. Jugs and bottles, tumblers and bowls are faithfully fashioned, after eight-eenth-century models and are true to type in the deep tone of blue employed. Minute sets of glass deer and dogs, also after two-centuries-old originals, are delightful in their fidelity to life and their spirited pose. Such things look well behind the glass doors of a Sheraton cupboard which protects their delicate surfaces from dust.

Speaking at a luncheon tendered to the Tasmanian farmers, Mr. Shoobridge, the leader of the. party, remarked on the organisation of the farming community in the Dominion. He said the women's branch of the Farmers' Union ..was quite an innovation to the visitors. He thought it a splendid idea, for where the women were the men would surely also be, a remark which brought about much laughter.