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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in-ing to the statue couldnot be so arranged as to be removed during the day, if any one so desired. Examples of jewelry, manufactured by Messrs. Geissel & Hartrung, ofHanau, Germany, are shown on page 248, in illustration of the styles ofworkmanship popular among the women of that country. The necklace itselfis of a severely plain pattern, but the pendant hanging from it is quite elabo-rate. This latter is of finely-chased gold and filigree-work, something after the INDUSTRIAL ART. 255 manner of the Florentines. In the ear-rings we have specimens of cameo-cutting—one the portrait of a lady, and the other a fanciful subject, a Cupidin a bower of ferns, pouring water through a hollow log. It is hardly necessary to inform those of our readers who have come withus thus far that the illustration on page 249 represents another of the charmingpieces of work designed and executed under the auspices of the Royal Schoolof Art Needlework, in London. The design was doubtless made by one of
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Thorwaldseri s Ganymede in Terra-cotta : Madame Ipsen, of Denmark. the artists employed by that institution, after which it was embroidered uponthe cloth and mounted as we see it here. A fourth panel, concealed from viewin the illustration, but similar in character to the one on the right, completesthe harmony of the design, which is in every way admirable. In a country-house or in any dwelling where gas is not in use, the Lamp-Stand of German manufacture, shown in our illustration on page 250, would beabout as pretty and useful an article for the purpose as could be devised. It islight and graceful in shape, and yet of sufficient weight to withstand any ordinaryjar. The lamps are raised to a sufficient height to be out of the way and to 256 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. give their light the proper elevation, while a broad, shallow vase is added tothe top, in which flowers may be arranged to advantage.

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