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Fig. 2.10: Joan Methley, Gladys Short, and Marjorie Johnstone in the studio at
Olifantsfontein, 1926.
which appealed to discerning consumers of the day and which now enjoys a unique status in
Fig. 2.11: Marjorie Johnstone decorating a tile. (Cartwright, A. P. 1977, Diamonds
and Clay).
the history of South African ceramics. The fact that they accomplished this in an
unsympathetic and harsh industrial environment (their workshop once being described by
