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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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over is a band with scrolls woven about grotesquely formedanimals, forming a continuous pattern such as is seen in ancient friezes. Atthe ends of the casket are eagles heads with rings in their beaks for handles.In the front is a medallion containing a female head wreathed with a laurelcrown. On either side of this, on the same panel, are vines twining upwards,and doves disporting themselves on the branches. Borders of the pine-applepattern surround the base and cover of the casket, completing its ornamentation. The Brass Gate, which forms the subject of our illustration on page 331, INDUSTRIAL ART. 331 was part of the enclosure around the stall of Mitchell, Vance & Co., of NewYork, in the United States Court. It is an admirable piece of artistic metal-work, a credit alike to the artist who designed it and the workmen who executedit. Use has been considered before ornament in its construction, and we seehow true excellence in the former can be allied with simplicity. The material,
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fMiiiiHBawiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifi Brass Gate: Mitchell, Vance &> Co., New York. too, in which the work is wrought, has not been forgotten, and all the ornamenta-tion is of a perfectly legitimate kind. A vine gives the theme. Strips of metal,forming double reversed helices, the smaller above, the larger below, fill thespace within the square of the frame-work with their graceful curves. Fromthe main stem, tendrils branch off, and by their curves give more breadth tothe design. Each helix has a flower-shaped terminal, and here and there alongthe length of the curve are leaf-like projections, all introduced not only with 33? THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. an eye to the general effect, but to give strength and stability to the wholeconstruction. The display of ornamental crystal in the English Court was not equal incomparison with the importance of the industry to the display of ornamentalpottery, but among the pieces shown were some worthy of illustration as examples of that branch

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