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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
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5S 05■5; 3 C5 >3 ed by connois-seurs as piecesof Bernard Pa- LI SSY-W ARE. This famouspotter andchemist, wholived and work-ed under thepatronage ofHenry III, anddied miserablyin the Bastilefor his faith, to-ward the closeof that mon-archs reign,invented pro-cesses whichother potterswere unable todiscover, andmodeled natu-ral objects witha vigor and nat-uralness quiteunequaled bycontemporaryarticles. Oflate years the taste for Palissy-ware has revived to such an extent that fabulous prices arepaid for genuine specimens, and the market is flooded with more or less 236 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876.
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s; I 4: k 3 £ perfect imitations. One ofthe great firms in Paris,Messrs. Barbizet & Son,have devoted considerabletime and attention to repro-ducing this particular ware,and their labors have beeneminently successful. Intheir exhibition in the FrenchCourt at the Centennial,there were pieces in designand execution quite worthyof the great master himself,and some of their copiesplaced side by side with theoriginals would deceive evenan expert. The Palissy Plaque illus-trated on page 232 gives anexcellent idea of some ofthe characteristics of theartists manner. Every nat-ural object modeled by himwas copied with remarkableaccuracy both in form andcolor. It was rarely, too,if ever, that he went out-side of nature for his themes.His fish and shells werefound in the Seine, and hisplants are such as grew inhis neighborhood and cameunder his observation. An-other favorite style of deco- INDUSTRIAL ART. 237 ration with him was an imitation of rock-work, in which he excelled, but thename Pa

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  • bookpublisher:New_York__R__Worthington
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