Identifier: examplesofhouseh00smit (find matches)
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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divers readers that have already travelled in Italy, yet becauseunto many that neither have beene there, nor ever intend to go thither whilethey live, it will be a meere novelty, I will not let it passe unmentioned. Thefirst Italian fannes that I saw in Italy did I observe in this space betwixtPizighiton and Cremona; but afterwards I observed them common in mostplaces of Italy where I travelled. These fannes both men and women of thecountry doe carry, to coole themselves withall in the time of heat, by the oftenfanning of their faces. Most of them are very elegant and pretty things. Forwhereas the fanne consisteth of a painted piece of paper and a little woodenhandle; the paper, which is fastened into the top, is on both sides most curi-ously adorned with excellent pictures, either of amorous things tending todalliance, having some witty Italian verses or fine emblems written under them;or of some notable Italian city, with a briefe description thereof added there- INDUSTRIAL ART. 307
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Brass Corona Chandelier: Mitchell, Vance & Co., Mew York. 308 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. unto. These fannes are of a meane price, for a man^may buy one of thefairest of them for so much money as countervailed our English groate. The two chairs covered with tapestry, illustrated on pages 304 and 305,which were exhibited in the French Court of the Main Building at the Cen-tennial, may be accepted as examples of the styles of furniture which Frenchupholsterers consider fit for use with this costly and most artistic covering. Theframes are of ebony or ebonized wood, ornamented with carving and gilding,but with these in rather less profusion than we are accustomed to see inParisian work of this nature. The shape and size of the chair-frame beinggiven, the design for the tapestry is made, and*4:hus a pattern following thelines of the frame and adapted to them is prepared. In one of our examplesit will be seen that cornucopias, bouquets and garlands of flowers are enclosedin one

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