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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ious to get good specimens of good mediaeval work, and thereforewilling to pay liberally, the other determined to have something antique,because it seems to be the correct thing to have, and as a consequence readyto pay exorbitant prices, has given a truly astonishing impulse to the trade ofthe dealer and the trade of the imitator. Rich as Italy undoubtedly was inart-treasures in those glorious days when art was still religion and religion INDUSTRIAL ART. 49 found expression in art, if but half the stuff annually carried off from her citiessince then was genuine, she would long ago have been stripped of her glories;instead of which she is to-day a seemingly inexhaustible mine, growing richerrather than poorer to the intelligent searcher after art-treasures. Daniell & Son, of London, make one of the finest ceramic displays inthe English section and, indeed, in the Exhibition. Their cases contain examplesof the choicest wares produced in the famous Staffordshire potteries. We select
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Porcelain Vases : Daniell and Son. for illustration two pieces—a pair of vases—which are among the chefs dceuvreor their collection. Our engraving shows their beauty of form and the exquisitedesigns which enrich them. But the composition of the ware, and the methodby which they are decorated, give them a peculiar and great value. Thevases are porcelain of a deep chocolate color, of superior evenness and depthof tone. On this body, after the first firing, the design has been painted bya process known as pate-sur-p&te, or paste on paste. Exactly how this wasdone was for a long time kept a secret at Sevres, where it was first invented 50 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. in 1847, by Ebelman. During the Paris Exposition of 1867, some Englishworkmen—potters from Staffordshire—sent over to report on the display totheir fellow-craftsmen at home, saw this ware, then first exhibited as a novelty,and discovered by inspection the secret process pursued in its production. Atthe begi

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