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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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Furniture Silk: Spanish Court. INDUSTRIAL ART. 455 which contains the oil, andis mounted on a stand ortripod of classical designand graceful form. Thecandelabrum is particularlygraceful, the severity of theoutline being relieved bythe pendant chains con-necting the brackets withthe central stem, which restsupon a richly ornamentedbase. The specimen of Furni-ture Silk, from the Collec-tive Exhibit of Saxony,illustrated on page 452, isnoteworthy for the richnessof its design. Here, as inmany previous instancesthat we have noted, the oldPompeiian style of ar-ranging vases, garlands,bouquets, trophies, andother figures in groups,one above the other in aconnected sequence, is seenin the designers dispositionof this pattern. In the littleoblong panels at the upperand lower end of the stripof silk, a bit of figure-drawing has been intro-
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Lace Curtain : M. Jacoby &> Co., Nottmgham. duced in the combat of goats. Only an exuberant fancy could have suggestedanything so novel as this is in connection with the other portions of the design. 456 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. The elegance and elaborate richness of the Loiret Faience is well illus-trated in the two examples engraved on page 453, from the Collective Exhibitin the French Court. They are essentially objects of ornament, and the artistand designer have free scope for their fancy in making them as rich and pleasingto the eye as may be. The modeling of these vases is very vigorous, and thedecoration is rich, varied and spirited. There is charming figure-painting, too,of little loves and nymphs, in the broad zones around the bowls, that shouldnot escape the observers attention, as the drawing and composition are excellent. The Furniture Silk, shown on page 454—an example of Spanish design,

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