COLLECTING A “ZOO.”

Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)

COLLECTING A “ZOO.”

ANIMARS AND BIRDS IN POTTERY.

(By

M.H.)

YVhflt a comfort it is tp remember that- tfie potential recipient of a gift is U collector of something or other, and that the obvious thing to do is to add another specimen to the collection. Mgny people nowadays collect mintatote zoos of birds apd beasts in china, glass, or pottery" and it should not be difficult tQ find pieces that are not of tfie compipfi and so far not represented in tfie collection concerned. Some of tire beasts are of thp fabulous order; unicorps, for instance, and the fljing fiqrse of the pegasus breed. Alopt" qf thp aniipals are exceedingly well modelled, many of them bpipg by well-kppwp sculptors apd potters conipiissjoned by toe factories. Eveiy yeai additional specimens are turned out by the kilns, s ° tofit • there is uiifailing. interest in keeping a collection up-to-date, ‘ TWe are varipus way B of displaying these ?POS, The modernist -decorator makes sunken shelves in the'wall for the figures, placing hidden electric bulbs above**so that they appear mysteriously illuminatoj- The fl’Pnfs of the shelves are faced V’itii glass so that theie io no trouble in dusting and no risk of . smashing' thcni. fepmll alcoves, pri ranged ’with narrow shelves, are also luped for. displaying the models, j China animals, designed to look i though they werp sleeping on a cushion, 1 stapdifig up by the hearth, 01 ctofioning I on a rug, are popular and amusing. And ' glass animals, to be displayed under ! water in a tank, on the window sill, or ■on top of a'cabinet, make interesting : addition B to a collection. r i ...j..