POTTERY AND PORCELAIN.

the number was increased to fifteen, and finally to twenty.
A room was rented in the pottery owned by Mr. Fred-

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12S.-PORCELAIN \AsL UNDERGLAZE DECORA-
TION, By Mts. A1. L. NIcioLs, 1878.
CINCINNATI MUSEUM OF ART.

erick Dallas, on Hamil-
ton Road, where white
and cream-colored
wares were produced.
Two kilns for firing
underglaze and over-
glaze ware were erected
here, the cost being
defrayed by Miss Mc-
Laughlin  andT Mrs.
Maria Longworth
Nichols. Experiments
were prosecuted with
(greater vigor, and rapid
improvement       in
methods was mad e,
through the intelligent
co-operation  of  Mr.
Dallas and his fore-
man, Mr. Joseph Bailey,
now superintendent of
the Rookwood Pottery.
Mrs. Nichols and other
ladies, not members of
the  Pottery Club,

worked in another part of the building which had
been erected by the mother of Anthony Trollope for
her country-house during her residence in Cincinnati.

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