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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fepergne : Elkington <S° Co. artisans to emulate their foreign brethren, that we can hope to derive lastingbenefit from the Centennial. INDUSTRIAL ART. 207 Another Amphora,page 203, may betaken as an illus-tration of similarresults of a studyof classical models.Here are two ar-ticles designed bydifferent artists indifferent manufac-tories,yet both bear-ing a certain gen-eral resemblanceand the stamp ofantique methods.This piece differsfrom the former inthat it is composedof bronze and whitemetal, the latterbeing used for themedallions on thebody and the orna-mentation of thehandles, thus pro-ducing a rich andstriking contrast. An object thatattracted the atten-tion of the ear aswell as the eye wasthe Mason & Ham-harmony with the music The engraving on also of French workmanship, which we engrave on lin Organ, engrav-ed on page 204.We cannot giveour readers anyadequate idea ofthe volume or thepurity of the soundthat issued fromthis organ, but theycan judge for them-selves from

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