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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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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Porcelain Vase: Chinese Court. objects calculated to meet modern wants; and thus a new manufacture hasarisen in France from the object of one object into the national museum. We are pleased to be able to make place for this note here, as it is anoteworthy answer to many who are disposed to underrate the present move-ment in this country in favor of art museums and industrial art education.There is no denying the fact that if the United States is to gain and maintaina place in the markets of the world for manufactured articles of any descrip- 476 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. tion into which artistic design enters, that we must provide schools of artinstruction and art museums in the great commercial and manufacturing centresof the country. And the sooner our manufacturers awaken to the necessity ofthis and act accordingly, the better it will be for the community. In this citywe have the above-mentioned Museum and School of Industrial Art now inactive operation, and in regard to

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