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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China Plaque and Basin ■ French Collective Exhibit. picture, some three feet wide by four feet high, framed in tiles. Unlike anyother part of the composition, this picture is painted in sienna-brown on awhite ground, no other colors being used. It represents the interior of apeasants cottage and a group of four figures — the mother with her babesleeping upon her knee, a half-grown lad leaning upon the back of her chair,and a younger boy seated at her feet. It is bed-time for the little fellow, but 392 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. he does notwant to go, andthe motherseems to beappealing tothe elder bro-ther to set thelittle lad a goodexample andto go with him.It is a homelyscene, such asmight be seenin any cot-tagers homeat eventide, butthe artist hasportrayed itwith such fidel-ity, and madesuch an har-monious group-ing of the fig-ures, that theobserver can-not fail to bepleased withthe work. The narrowupright panels,separated fromthis picture bythe frame, andboundedon the
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fcpergne : Zimmerman—Collective Exhibit of Germany. other side bya strip of tilessimilar to thosein the frame,are painted ina like styleto the panelsaround the fire-place, but withgreater bril-liancy of colorand execution.We have hereglimpses of atropical forestalive with ofor-geous-plum-aged birds andresplendentbutterflies. Theartistic excel-lence of thesepieces is asgreat as in anyother part ofthe work, andthe variety andrichness of thecolor in themis astonishing,when we con-sider that allhave to be ofa nature ca INDUSTRIAL ART 393 pable of withstandingthe action of the heat inthe firing to which theyare subjected. Some curious ex-amples of TurkishCrockery are shown onpage 386. These speci-mens represent a warevery common in Turkey,and one which is madewith very little variationof form or in the methodof manufacture in variousparts of the empire. Thematerial is a common redclay, which is mouldedand baked in the kilninto a porous earthen-ware. After this preliminarybaking, the vess

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