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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
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Epergne : y. & L. Lobmeyr, Vienna. It is quite likely that the fashion, like so many other luxurious fashions,of decorating fans with artistic paintings, had its origin in the luxurious courtof the Louis. Certain it is, however, that the fashion was and always has beenmost common and carried to its greatest extreme in France. Some of theseare miracles of delicate workmanship and marvels of painting. There are fansin some of the European collections weighted with jewels and painted by themost noted artists of the day. A few years ago there was a remarkable INDUSTRIAL ART. 193
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revival of the tastefor painted fans—forthese ladies toys aremore subject thanalmost any others tothe changes of ca-pricious fashion —and there are atpresent in Europemany persons whoseentire time is givento doing decorationof this kind. Thetwo specimens weillustrate on page186 are charmincfexamples of this kindof work. On one isa pretty little pas-toral scene a laWatteau, and on theother is a designsymbolizing die be-trothal of happylovers. Both areexquisitely paintedand mounted in themost delicate anddainty manner pos-sible. The Dessert Ser- vice engraved onpage 187 is a speci-men of the plated silverware produced at the manufactory of the Meriden Furniture SLk: Collective Exhibit of France. i94 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. Britannia Company. The central piece is particularly rich and elegant, thedesire of the artist seeming to have been to produce something chaste ratherthan anything elaborate. The combination of glass with the silver is happilyconceived, and the effect

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  • bookyear:1875
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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Centennial_Exhibition__1876___Philadelphia__Pa__
  • booksubject:Decorative_arts
  • bookpublisher:New_York__R__Worthington
  • bookcontributor:Sterling_and_Francine_Clark_Art_Institute_Library
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