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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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reelegant than this rich Collinson 6* Lock, London. textile. When it IS Used for this purpose, the %: designs are made and wrought in a manner, as seen in our illustrations, calcu- 170 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. lated to adorn and to be as much an integral part of the furniture as thecarving on the frame. The engravingson pages 172 and173 will be recog-nized by every onewho visited the Ja-panese Court asamong the most no-table objects in thatwonderful collec-tion of oriental art.These vases standabout four feet inheight. They aremade of bronze, afavorite materialwith the Japanesemetal-workers, whoare certainly un-surpassed by anypeople in the worldfor originality ofdesign and skill inexecution. The ex-amples before usare excellent speci-mens of their pecu-liar method. In thegrotesques at thebase and in therelief ornamenta-tion on the sides we see that peculiar exaggeration and distortion of naturalobjects which many people prefer to the conventionalism obtaining with European
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s J> K -5? INDUSTRIAL ART 171 artists. Here, too, in the elaboration of minute designs on the collars and therim and in the superbly executed handles, we see the evidence of a patient,painstaking labor such as only oriental workmen practice. The Swinging Pitcher, which forms the subject of our illustration on page174, will commend itself to every one as a capital and novel idea. In thiscountry, where the use of ice is almost universal, and where it is consumed inquantities that astonish foreigners, ice-pitchers are a necessity. Many of these are made of sil-ver or platedware, and are ofconsiderable size.So large are they,in fact, that whenin use their weightis a serious objec-tion to them, anobjection whichthis excellent in-vention doesaway with entire-ly. Here thepitcher is hung ina frame, which isprovided with ahandle by whichto carry it, so

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