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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rm-ingly gracefuland pretty, andthe contours andflesh-tints havebeen wonderfullywell preservedthrough all theseveral firingswhich the piece had to undergo before it was finished. From these figures we turn to theother ornamentation, the scroll-work and shell-shaped receptacles at the base,the elaborate bracket-for the fruit-baskets at the sides, the medallion onthe base of the column, and the shaft itself, capped by a third and larger basketfor fruit and Mowers, and finally the harmony and proportion of the whole is INDUSTRIAL ART. 283 observed. The piece possesses the rare merit of being pleasing just as itappears, while the imagination, picturing it in use, its baskets heaped full withfruit and flowers, can see that it will gain added beauty by the addition. The beautiful Bronze Vase of Japanese manufacture illustrated on page 282is an example of how faithfully and accurately the artisans of this wonderfulnationality can reproduce in metal natural forms, either animate or inanimate.
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Lace Shawl: Collective Exhibit of France. We have here rocks, trees, animals, and birds, treated without the least con-ventionality, the artist appearing to have endeavored to copy them to the life.On the cover of the vase is a mass of rock, jagged and broken, its surfacepartially covered with the leaves of a clinging vine. Poised on the top, as ifjust about to spring from its rest, is a pheasant, its wings outspread, its beakopen and crest erected, in an attitude of attack. On the sides of the bowl, inthe place of handles, are gnarled and rugged roots and branches of trees,twisted and contorted like the laurel of our swamps. Below, as feet to thevase, are animals heads, each one grasping in its mouth a ring attached to the 284 THE INTERNATIONAL EX HI D IT I ON, 1876. base on which the whole rests. The modeling and finish of each of theseseveral objects is perfect. One hardly knows which to admire most, the delicatedelineation of the feathers on the bird, the hair on the beasts, the v

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