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THE INDUSTRY OF ALL NATIONS.

Within a few years articles in terra-cotta have comeinto extensive use for architectural and other ornaments,and this branch of art-manufacture has been carried to

great excellence and beauty. The matei'ials used are thefinest clays, free from oxyd of iron, which are mixedwith calcined flints and crushed pottery, and baked at a

temperature but little below fusion. Modern terra-cottas are quite different from the articles known amongthe ancients under that name, and are much more dura-

a Water Cooler, with decorations in the medieval | and the ornaments are applied with excellent tastestyle, and a group of Grecian and Gothic vases for I and effect.

a terrace or conservatory, The models are graceful, | In an industrial point of view, the Staffordshire pot-

teries are one of the most interesting localities in Eng-land. From thence come the fine porcelain services,which at the tables of the noble and wealthy are ad-

mired as triumphs of artistic and manufacturing skill,and the coarser varieties of earthenware for everydayuse, which are produced by hundreds of thousands, and

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Me. The beautiful examples engraved upon this pageare exhibited by Henry Doulton & Co., of Lambeth.They consist of an ivy-wreathed Vase, a Vine Basket,

may be found in every cottage the world over. The I Service, exhibited by Messrs. Ridgway & Co., one of thegroup at the top of the page is an elegant porcelain Tea | largest of the Staffordshire manufacturers.