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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Phaton Cup : Elkington 6» Co., London. few known specimens of enameled glass lamps for mosques, some of thethirteenth century work, which were made by the expert glass-blowers of thatperiod. In one of his lectures on Arts Museums, delivered by Dr. Chris-topher Drener, in the Academy of the Fine Arts, under the auspices of thePennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, that gentleman made aninteresting mention of a similar specimen to the one engraved above. A most striking illustration, he said, of the usefulness of museumspecimens is found in the beautiful work of Brocard, of Paris. An Arabian 474 THE INTERNATIONAL EXH1BIT10N, 1876, lamp was added a few years since to the collections of the Louvre. It wasformed of transparent and nearly colorless glass, which was richly figured withcharacteristic ornaments traced in enamel colors and gold. It was brought, I
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Sevres Vase: French Court. believe, from a mosque in Cairo, and was thirteenth century work; a specimenof a manufacture altogether new to Europe, and it was undoubtedly artistic.No sooner was it exposed in the museum than it attracted the attention andelicited the admiration of M. Brocard. But this man did not content himself INDUSTRIAL ART 475 with simply admiring it; he at once attempted its reproduction, and, happily,after many attempts, he succeeded in founding an art which is most creditableto France. Brocard, however, did not merely commence the manufacture oflamps now no longer useful, but devoted his best efforts to the production of

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