372     POTTER Y AND PORCELAIN.
relinquish this second enterprise by the arbitrary ruling of
the city Board of Health which, under the pretext that the
firing of his kilns endangered the safety of the adjacent
buildings, ordered him to close the works.
Just previous to the Centennial, as we have already
seen, Mr. Broome was engaged by the Etruria Pottery of

Trenton, N. J.,
PAINTING, POETRY,
AND MUSIC FACING.
BY BROOME.

to prepare some special designs for the
approaching exhibition. In 1878 he was
appointed a special commissioner on ce-
ramics to the Paris Exposition, and, in
conjunction  with  General McClellan,
made a thorough study of the ceramic
art as it exists abroad. While connected
with the Ott & Brewer Company at
Trenton, he made some original drawings
on stone for some special and general
work which were printed in black, in
colors, and in gold, said to be the first
lithographic printing on pottery ever lone
in America.
In the year i88o, on his return to
Trenton from abroad, he utilized the time
in recovering from an attack of illness in

putting into practical application some ideas which he
had previously thought out in the production of a variety
of ware never before attempted in this country. The
body was a well vitrified porcelain with underglaze color
effects, the paste, colors, and glaze being thoroughly
incorporated together by a single firing. The result was
a ware difficult to describe, but most pleasing in its modest