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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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Console : Wright 6s Mansfield, London. museum a case of his superb ware, which the museum committee have obtainedfor the use of the students. Recurring again to the exhibit of the Messrs. Elkington, of Birmingham,England, we have selected for illustration on page 480 a group of ArtisticMetal-Work, consisting of an Iron Tazza, with silver and copper enrichments;a large Flower Dish with water channels between raised ornamented zones;and a Silver Tazza, in repousse-work, named from the subject the Impruden-tia. Each of these articles is a masterpiece in its way, and contributes to thegreat reputation of the Messrs. Elkington as artistic metal-workers. The INDUSTRIAL ART. 477
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central figure of the group,the Flower-Dish, is charm-ingly ornamented around theouter rim with medallionfigure-subjects symbolical ofthe months. Nothing couldbe more graceful and spiritedthan the poses of the femalefigures, nor more happilyconceived than the manner inwhich the zodiacal signs areintroduced, and the subjectin its entirety treated. Thesemedallions illustrate the firstsix months of the year—Julyand the remaining- monthsbeing figured in a like manneron the other plaque whichmatches the one shown inour illustration. In the centreof the dish are a bevy ofpretty little cupids, flower-wreathed and rose-crowned.As is the case with all of theElkingtons art-work, thedelicacy of the workmanship and the fine execution are quite equal topurity and elegance of the designs. a ■ — I 5? ; sto .■a. the 478 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. A characteristic feature of the display of jewelry, gold and silver personalornaments, etc., in the Italian Court at the Centennial, was th

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