POTTERY AND PORCELAIN.

services or pieces made to order and decorated with
initials, monograms, medallions, or amorial bearings, usu-
ally enclosed in wreaths of flowers or gold tracery. Com-
pact bands of exquisitely painted flowers, in which the
rose, tulip, and forget-me-not were generally prominent,
encircled many of the finer pieces. Some of the vases
and pitchers and many of the table pieces were close
copies of Sivres forms,
and some of the ware
sold at the present
time for French work
by bric-a-brac dealers,
was made in Phila-
delphia between 1833
and 1838. Excellent
portraits of prominent
men were painted on
some of the larger
pieces, an example of
the latter being still
5l  ll Polm~uR   o, ~preserved in a pitcher
xx X~lllNJ{)N. (BARBER COLLECTION)  owned by Hon. Wil-
PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM.    ham Wayne, of Paoli,
Pa., which is embellished on one side with a view of
the historic monument at Paoli, and on the other with
a colored likeness of Major-General Anthony Wayne,
copied from an oil portrait by Charles Wilson Peale.
This interesting piece is one of a pair made for Colonel
Isaac Wayne, son of General " Mad Anthony," and is
marked on the bottom, in red, " Manufactured by Jos.

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