Underglaze Painted
I. Individual Pieces.
Vases and placques signed by the artists who have painted them. Such unique specimens of personal work are never reproduced.
(A list of artists, with facsimile reproductions of their signatures, will be found at the end of this chapter.)
II. General Art Objects.
Vases, placques, bibelots, and ornamental subjects.
These are designed with a view to general production, and this practice has originated since 1893.
PLACQUE.
With geese and landscape painted in underglaze colours. Signed C. F. Liisberg.
In this class may be included the collection of Commemorative Placques designed by Arnold Krog. The number struck of these is limited, and they are never repeated after the occasion for which they were made (see p. [243]).
More strictly utilitarian ware is represented by the continuous output of the blue-and-white fluted service, to which new forms are constantly being added.
III. Figure Subjects.
Peasants, children, and animal life—quadrupeds, birds, and fish—all modelled directly from nature.
IV. Vases and Modelled Subjects with Coloured or Crystallized Glazes.
This style was commenced at Copenhagen as early as 1886, and is described in detail, Chapter X.