Australian Botanical Illustration Australian National Botanic Gardens Australian National Herbarium

Vase Decoration, by Mr L. H. Howie, a student at the School of Art and Crafts, Adelaide, SA.

At the Technicalogical Museum are some fine specimens of Waratah decoration in china from several artists in different States of the Commonwealth. The conventionalised decoration of the Waratah [left] is the work of Laurence Hotham Howie, a student of the School of Art and Crafts, Adelaide, South Australia.

From: R.T.Baker (1915) 'The Australian Flora in Applied Art, Part 1, The Waratah', Sydney.
[ammended text by M.H.Howie (daughter) 2004]