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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olden times as among the mostbeautiful examples of the art, is again attracting the attention of every oneinterested in the subject by the earnest efforts on the part of several Italianartists of note to revive the taste of the people in this regard, and to stimu-late native talent to bring back to their country its ancient renown. The ItalianCourt at the Centennial Exhibition contained numerous examples of modernwood-carving, some in imitation of the style of the Renaissance, others fashionedafter more ancient models, and more exemplifying the originality of the artist Pa THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. untrammeled by the methods of any particular school. Our readers are alreadyfamiliar with several of the most noteworthy of these works, which have beenillustrated and described at length in these pages, from which an excellent ideaof the progress already made in the direction aimed at can be had. Of thesethe greater number have been examples of artistic carving of scroll-work, a
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Silver Plaque Elkington d^ Co., Birmingham, England. oraceful interweaving of vines, conventionalized figures obtained from the studyof the growth of plants, grotesque and natural rendering of birds and animals,and in one instance, a minutely exact copy of a famous ruin. Now, as anaddition to this group, we engrave on page 361 a Mirror-Frame, in whichthe artist has essayed the highest range of sculpture, the study of the humanfi £ lire. The Mirror-Frame consists of two parts—the ground-work for the orna- INDUSTRIAL ART. 365 mentation and the ornamentation itself. The ground-work or back consists ofan oval of plain, dark wood, about three feet in its longest diameter, sur-rounded on the outer and inner edges with a delicately carved raised mouldingof some light-colored wood. Poised upon the upper part of this moulding, andclambering up the sides of the frame, is a string of little winged cupids.

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