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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n the first, asa child, looking up with veneration at a bust of Homer, to which his fatherpoints as a model. The second shows him in the woods, reclining in a medi-tative attitude under the trees. Between the first and second of these medallionpictures is a portrait of the poet, laurel-crowned. Above this, the lyre for Mr.Bryants verse ; and beneath, the most primitive printing-press, for his connec-tion for over half a century with the New York Evening Post. In a smaller 276 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. medallion is thewaterfowl, usedby Mr. Bryantas an emblemof faith, andintroduced forthat reason asthe key-note ofhis writings.The ornamentaround the low-er part of thevase is of theIndian corn,with a singleband of cotton-leaves, and atthe foot is thewater-lily, em-blematic of elo-quence, for Mr.Bryants ora-tory. The han-dles are in har-mony with thegeneral outline,but subordinateto it, and as hu-mor is a subor-dinate elementin Mr. Bryantswritings, it issuggested hereby the Ameri
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The Bryant Vase: Tiffany &• Co., New York. can bob-olinkfor the humor-ous poem ofRobert of Lin-coln. The twogreat Americanstaples are in-troduced tocomplete theornamentationof the handles—the stalk, leafand grain of theIndian corn onthe inside, andthe bud, flowerand ripened bollof the cotton onthe outside. Onthe base whichsupports thevase is the lyrefor verse, whichwith the brokenshackles pointto Mr. Bryantsservices in thecause of Eman-cipation. The design-er has intro-duced symbolsfrom nature, asthe fittest means INDUSTRIAL ART 77 of illustrating- the life of an author whose writings teem with symbols drawnfrom the same source, and has intended to bring unity out of elaborate detail.

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