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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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Faience: Count von Thun, Austria. perfectly strong, an unusual lightness and feathery appearance is produced bymeans of numerous joints and springs which cause a quivering movement atthe slightest vibration, and reflect the light in a myriad of scintillating, dazzlingpoints. This superb jewel contains six hundred diamonds, and may well beregarded as a masterpiece of diamond-setting. Among the other specimens of jewelry on this page are a pair of perfectlymatched diamonds, of the first water, set as solitaires for ear-rings in as deli-cate a manner as is consistent with security. A favorite style of jewelry at thepresent time are the flower shapes and patterns shown in our illustration. Someof these are exquisite, as where a diamond simulates a drop of dew upon aleaf, or where pearls are so set as to appear like snowdrops or berries. On INDUSTRIAL ART 49 >
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Carpel: Tompkinson & Adams, Kidderminster. one leaf is an insect, its body of gems as resplendent in color as Natures ownhandiwork. On page 490 we engrave three pieces of ornamental Faience from theexhibit of Count von Thun, made at his potteries in Klosterie, Bohemia, and 492 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. shown in the Austrian Court at the Centennial. These works show, in severalrespects, the good influence of the Imperial Austrian Museum of Art andIndustry, at Vienna, and are especially noteworthy for the excellence of their contours and the vig-orous modeling of therelief ornamentation.The vase on the righthand of this groupwas one of the mostbrilliant pieces ofcolor decoration inthe Count von Thunscollection, and a tri-umph of the pottersskill in this regard.The designs, too, arerich and elegantlyconceived, and thehandles, in the shapeof leaf-tendrils, arecharmingly conven-tionalized. The Kiddermin-ster Carpet, manu-factured by Tompkin-son & Adams, shownin our engrav

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