POTTERY AND PORCELAIN.

the market, and a year afterward he commenced to deco-
rate his goods. But here he was met with the difficulty
of finding underglaze colors which would stand the intense
heat of the sharp fire necessary to vitrify the ware. So
far as we have any knowledge, Mr. Smith was the first
potter in America to apply the underglaze method of
decoration to hard porcelain, for it has already been seen
that Messrs. Tucker & Hemphill, in Philadelphia, used
only overglaze colors from 1825 to 1838, during the exist-
ence of their porcelain factory. The Greenpoint works,
however, have of late years used the overglaze method
also, in order to obtain a greater variety of coloring in
the production of decorative art pieces.
The late Karl Milller, a talented German sculptor
and artist, who was educated in Paris, was employed for
several years at the Greenpoint works as chief designer
and modeller. Just previous to the Centennial Exhibi-
tion, Ir. Miller designed a number of vases and other
pieces which exhibit a marked originality in conception
and a high degree of excellence in execution. Of these
we may mention the Century vase, in which appears a
relief portrait of Washington against a mat blue ground,
panels around the base representing, in white relief, an
Indian, the Tea Scene in Boston Harbor, a Revolutionary
Soldier, and other historical subjects. The handles of
the vase represent the head of the American bison. A
second vase is designed to illustrate Longfellow's poem,
Kiramos," with raised designs commemorating the his-
tory of the ceramic art from the most remote ages. Two
busts in a buff body represent Edwin Forrest as W1zi'lam

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