27 NOVEMBER 1920, Page 14

LUSTRE POTTERY.

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

Sui,—May one refer to the review of Lady Evans's book on Lustre Pottery in your journal of the 13th inst., which states that the lustre is applied on the glaze and fired at a low tem- perature? May one add that while much lustre is so applied, the truer, the more durable, and beautiful lustres are applied on the biscuit, and are all under the glaze, and fired at a tempera- ture often double that referred to in the review? The Chinese• flambe differs from most of the modern flambe owing to this