Rozane Egypto Information.

All Rozanes being the creations of individual artists, who bring their own wonderful talent and skill into the expression of their ideas of form, color and design, it is only natural that some very unusual products should be the result.

Rozane Egypto may be classed as one of the oddest styles of Rozane, although its soft finish and coloring, in varying shades of old greens, suggest a very beautiful color found in some of the rarest and most ancient potteries of old Egypt. The shapes and decorations, too, are reproductions of Egyptian art antiques.

Each piece of Rozane Egypto expresses a complete thought of its artist, savoring of the restfulness and free dom of nature. Through the shades of old green are seen glintings of those rich violets and blues which often entered into the colorings of rarest old Egyptian pieces. The prevailing color of these latter was a green which came to be almost as famous as the old red of the Chinese.

Rozane Egypto is indispensable in a collection of Rozanes or of any pottery. Not only is the color in itself peculiarly attractive and restful, but the forms of this variety, like all Rozanes, are graceful and well proportioned. The low modelings of mat decoration, too, retaining the prevailing hues, contribute effectively to its beauty.

A touch of green in a room is never amiss such greens, soft and harmonious, as Egypto presents. As a container for flowers, a piece of this ware is most charming. The fascination of an Egypto bowl or jar containing a mass of nasturtiums, their naming blossoms seen against the perfect green background of the vase, can hardly be described.

Egypto is well suited, as a background, for almost any flower, and is therefore as useful and practical as it is beautiful. It is ideal in rooms where colonial and other old-style decorative schemes are carried out. I In many ways, Rozane Egypto may be regarded as an ideal pottery.

"The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth or full of use," says Ruskin. "It must state a true thing or adorn a useful one." Rozane Egypto does both.

The ceramic is the union of two branches of art, the architectural and the graphic. It combines form and proportion with drawing and color. In the architectural, is demanded skill, beauty and use; in the graphic, skill, beauty and likeness. Essentials of the best in ceramic art are, therefore, skill, beauty, use and similitude (statement of truth), according to best authority.

Rozane Egypto meets every one of these requirements to the complete satisfaction of good ceramic judges, placing it at once among the very best potteries of the age.