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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t to obtain on large surfaces. The handles of thevase are rams heads, modeled after nature. Between them are suspendedgarlands, so disposed as to form frames for the medallion portraits that enrichthe sides of the vase. We have on this page, also, examples of ornamentaltiles suitable for walls, floors and chimneys; and in one corner is a single tile, 388 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. painted by hand, suitable for any decorative purpose. The design is a simpleone—a palm branch with a pair of parrakeets perched on one of the shoots; but it is so deli-cately paintedand colored, andevinces such anartistic feelingf intreatment thatthe tile mightworthily beframed and hungin a room as awall-ornament.Below this tileare two plaques,decorated withflower designsafter nature andscroll-work geo-metrically dis-posed, both ofwhich illustratethe high class oftalent employedby this firm. The section ofCarpet, engrav-ed on page 382,is from the exhib-it made by Mes-srs. ToMPKINSON & Adam, of
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Carpet: Tompkinson & Adam, Kidderminster, England. Kidderminster,England. Onlya portion of thecentral pattern isshown in ourillustration, butthe design of theborder is givenin full. It will beseen that this isquite elaboratein detail, and thatthe lines are sodisposed as tomake it a strong-ly marked fea-ture of the wholepattern. The Iron Grate,on page 383, wasexhibited in theextensive displaymade by Steel& Garland, ofSheffield, Eng-land. The prin-cipal feature ofthe work, asidefrom the generaldesign, is the decoration of the panels. These have been enriched with figures, executed inlow relief, in imitation of Japanese work of a like nature. The effect is novel INDUSTRIAL ART. 389

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