delicate and clever. Another striking speciality of design in Messrs. Davenport’s china is the clever and artistic way in which they have adapted the old Willow pattern to the modern requirements of déjeuner services and menu holders. The forms of the various pieces composing the service are of quaint and striking elegance, and, being heightened by massively gilt handles, and by strictly appropriate gilding of borders, rims, feet and raised ornaments, an effect is produced which is surpassingly “taking.” The déjeuner of which I have thus briefly spoken is one of the most successful adaptations of the Willow pattern yet achieved. In “stone china,” Messrs. Davenport’s dinner and dessert services, as well as jugs and other articles, are of faultless quality, and the styles of decoration, especially those which are adaptations--not servile imitations--of old Indian patterns, are remarkably good and effective. In some of these the spirit of the foreign artist has been so thoroughly caught, that, to the casual observer, they might well pass for genuine foreign pieces. The services in ordinary earthenware are extremely varied in pattern, in amount of decoration, and in variety of shapes; they are of good quality. [Illustration: Figs. 429 to 431.] The marks used by Messrs. Davenport have been various, but almost in every instance the anchor has been the distinguishing characteristic; it is the trade mark of the firm. The crown was first used by them, on the Royal Service for William IV., and is now generally used on porcelain services. Figs. 429 to 436 are impressed marks. [Illustration: Figs. 432 to 436.] The printed marks are, a circular garter, bearing the words DAVENPORT LONGPORT STAFFORDSHIRE, surrounding an anchor and the words “Stone China” in script. Another is a shield, with the words 30 CANNING PLACE LIVERPOOL 82 FLEET STREET LONDON encircled by a garter bearing the words DAVENPORT LONGPORT STAFFORD^{RE} and surmounted by the crest, an anchor on an heraldic wreath. Another has a circular garter, bearing the words DAVENPORTS & CO. surrounding the address, 82, FLEET STREET LONDON. * * * * * _Longport Terra Cotta._--At the 1851 Exhibition Mr. W. Marsh, (modeller at Davenports’) of Longport, exhibited a very successful example of terra cotta produced by him. It was a wine-cooler of bold and good design. It is engraved on Fig. 414. In the early part of this century Messrs. Samuel Marsh & Co. were manufacturers at Brownhills. [Illustration: Fig. 437.] * * * * *