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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The frieze shows: The God of Love, and in his hand a Queen,—Alcestis,the queen of wives—crowned with the daisy and clothed in its colors as Chaucerdescribes in his Prologue, quoted above. Next in order are placed as notinappropriate attendants on the ideal wife, such domestic virtues as Diligence,Order, Providence and Hospitality, which will not be considered out of place inany house, and may fitly be represented as caryatides supporting the roof.Between the figures, the alternate plants suggest the text inscribed below themfrom Chaucers Flower and the Leaf. In the daisy pattern below is intro-duced the burden of the song in praise of the flower from the same poem :— Si douce est la Margarete. This pattern in the paper consists of four rows of festoons, but we have beenobliged to cut off two of them in order to reduce the engraving to the size of ourpage. In the Dado, the Purity and Innocence which the poet does not clepefolye, is further symbolized by the Lilies and the Doves.
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Challenge Prize of the National Musical Union : Cox &> Sons, London, INDUSTRIAL ART. Turning now from this admirable production of Mr. Cranes, we give anillustration of a totally different branch of industry, in a specimen of work fromthe establishment of one of our own manufacturers. The Comanche Cup isexhibited by Messrs. Tiffany & Co., of New York. The main figure representsa Comanche hunter armed with a rifle, clinging dexterously to a galloping mustangin such a way as to shield his body and retain the use of his arms for defence orattack. The bas-relief on the pedestal is a fine specimen of repousse chasing.Including the base, it is wrought wholly of sterling silver. That our readers may have an opportunity of comparing the art workman-ship of this country with that of other nations in a department of art—that ofthe goldsmith—which is not only one of the most ancient, but also one of themost durable in the world, we give on the preceding page an illustration of ace

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