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Title: Examples of household taste
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Smith, Walter, 1836-1886 Smith, Walter, 1836-1886. Industrial art of the International Exhibition
Subjects: Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) Decorative arts
Publisher: New York, R. Worthington
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

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Frame: Emile Phillipe, Paris. INDUSTRIAL ART. 145
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A. Blanc, Del. Crystal Chandelier: Mitchell, Vance & Co., New York. F. Faas, F.ngr. 146 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. Perhaps no better idea of the effectiveness with which glass can be used asa decorative agent for chandeliers was afforded in any portion of the Exhibition,than in the stalls, in the American section of the Main Building, occupied byMessrs. Mitchell, Vance & Co., of New York. The array of light, graceful formsfor pendants and side-lights, the handsome clusters and the superb centre-piecesof elaborate design, all in crystal, thus displayed, made the exhibit of this firmone of the most interesting and attractive features of that portion of the building.Of course, owing to the regulations governing the Exhibition, it was not allowableto introduce gas into the tubes, which lighted, would have shown the effectmost advantageously; but there were certain periods during the day whenthe sun-light, shining in through the upper transoms of the building, fellupon the

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