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                                       THE ART-JOURNAL CATALOGUE OF
Herren C. TIELSCH & Co., of Altwasser (Prussian Silesia), by approved
artists. They are, as will be seen by -the specimens we have selected,
                                                     very varied in character,
some being mere "utilities," but carefully considered and
are contributors of works in Porcelain and Earthenware.
                                                      treated, while others
will be accepted as graceful acquisitions to the drawing-room
                                                      and the boudoir-the
elegancies ot refined life. The productions of Herren Tielsch
 They are, for the most part, of a good order, while some will attract attention
and admiration,-aa Art-works and as specimens of "potting,"-
 are of much excellence, the designs having been furnished) notwithstanding
they are near neighbours of the Royal Manufactory of Prussia.
 thoughtfully. And these lessons they used,- as lessons such as of imparting
expression. And in nothing is this prompt and
       thos ouht away tobe used, in aiding them in the working out earnest
readiness to -learn shown more emphatically by the old
       indeendnt syle  ofArt, such as would be in harmony with  artists of
the north and west, thnin their grateful recognition
       thei owncirumstnce, adapted to their own requirements, and  of the
practical value of such training and such suggestions
  at once rich in reminiscences of their teachers and faithful expo- as they
could obtain only from what they still might consider to
  inents of themselves.                                           be the
oriental capital of Europe. Equally characteristic, on the
    Another striking and beautiful example of the working of an  contrary,
was their maintenance in their Arts of a sturdy inde-
  external agency of great power in Art, without the faintest trace pendence.
Influenced they woudgalbeyths with whom
  of any interference with freedom and self-government, is apparent Art was
an element of, their benbtoerldthey would
  in the evident presence of a strong Byzantine influence throughout never
be;. to the greatest Art taevrhdrinand to the
  the Arts of northern and western Europe. Nothing could be noblest artists
who ever had flourished, they would yield no
  more strictly natural than this, as nothing could be better qualified 
absolute submission, they would concede no right to exercise a
  to civilise the civilisers, to impart refinement to works executed  supreme
domination.
  by strong hands, and to instil into uncultivated minds the faculty  It
was the same with the Arts under the rule of what has so
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