POTTERY AVD PORCELAIV.

colored glaze, and represented the " Flint Enameled
Ware." Above this was a life-sized parian bust of Mr.
Fenton, surrounded by eight Rockingham columns, and
the whole was surmounted by a parian figure of a woman,
represented in the act of presenting the Bible to an
infant. This work is said to have been designed by Mr.
Fenton, but modelled by Greatbach, and was placed on
exhibition at the New York Crystal Palace in 1853. It
now stands on the porch of Mr. Fenton's former residence
in Bennington, a monument to his enterprise and genius.
I am informed by Mr. L. W. Clark that several dupli-
cates of this monument were made, as it was at first the
intention of Mr. Fenton to utilize them as stoves, but the
idea was afterwards abandoned.
By quoting from Horace Greeley's Art and Industry
at the Crystal Palace, New York, we are enabled to gain
an excellent idea of the various wares produced at the
Bennington factory at that time. He says: "Around this
monument are displayed table and scale standards, Cor-
inthian capitals, figures, vases, urns, toilet-sets, and a
great variety of other specimens in porcelain, plain and
inlaid. The pitchers in porcelain are deserving of notice,
as a branch of natural industry; though not decorated
beyond a gilt molding, and, therefore, not attractive as
china, yet they possess the first elements of good ware-
that is, an uniform body without any waving, and of well-
mixed and fine materials. . . . The superiority of the
Flint Enamel Ware over the English consists in the addi-
tion of silica combined with kaolin, or clay from Vermont,
which, when in properly adjusted proportions, produces

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