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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Bronze Lamp: French Court. which will issue from its pipes. page 208 represents a Punch Bowl and Goblets, 208 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. exhibited by the Middletown Plate Company, of Connecticut. It has beenthe aim of the artist, in designing this group, to embody and typify the jovialspirit and sense of good fellowship that accompanies the use of such objects.The bowl, a noble, generous one in size, is decorated with scrolls and medal-lions, in which the grape-vine in leaf and fruit appears. At either end are
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Punch Bowl and Cups: Middletown Plate Co. miniature bottles and goblets. The cover is surmounted with a little Bacchusseated, as god of the revels, astride a bottle, upon a cushion of vine-leaves.Two other jolly little fellows, mounted irf like manner, whip their steeds towardseach other from either end of the salver, on which the bowl and goblets rest.These goblets, like their neighbor, the bowl, suggest by their size a generous INDUSTRIAL ART 209 supply of liquor, and the vine-leaf and grape with which they too are adornedindicate what the brew should be. Next, perhaps, after the border around theedge of the bowl, which is exceedingly graceful and pretty, the figures of theBacchi are the most notable features in this group. They are well modeled,and the upper one especially is full of life and action in his pose. It is aquestion whether the bowl would not have looked fully as well without the

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