POTTERIES RECENVTLY ESTABLISHED. 567
a fine, smooth texture, and is produced in a variety of
tints.
Mr. Van Briggle died at Colorado Springs in the sum-
mer of 1904, but the works are still being carried on.
DETROIT, MICII.
An art pottery, original in conception and treatment,
has been perfected by Miss Mary Chase Perry, at Detroit,
Mich. This product, which has been called Pewabic ware,
after the northern river of that name, is of hard, white body
covered with heavy opaque glazes of various colors, com-
ing from the kiln with a natural mat finish which is most
pleasing to the sight and touch. The forms of the ware
are simple and graceful; the ornamentation is usually in re-
lief, consisting of natural and conventional leaf-forms artis-
tically and harmoniously modelled. Some of the pieces
appear in monochrome, the color scheme running through
the greens, purples, and yellows. Other examples exhibit
pleasing combinations of flow glazes in various shades of
yellow and brown or in blue, purple, and white. One of
the most pleasing and novel effects is produced by crys-
talline spots of a light shade which are scattered evenly
through a uniform ground color. While the dull green
glaze possesses a tone quality entirely different from that
of any other ware, it is in the orange-yellow, streaked \vith
warm, rich browns that Miss Perry has achieved her great-
est success. In some of the pieces the heavy glaze of one
or more shades trickles down the sides on a ground of a
different tint, suggestive of some of the slow-flowing
glazes of Oriental wares.