Examples of household taste (1875) (14802385953)

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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Copies, in Bronze, of Antique Statuary : Italian Court. really stronger furniture all to pieces. This furniture is especially adaptedto use in summer-houses, where its lightness and coolness make it agreeableto the eye and touch. If the Messrs. Elkington & Co., of Birmingham, England,, had made no INDUSTRIAL ART. 423
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I 424 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. other contributions to the Centennial than the Industrial Cup, shown on page421, the beauty of the design and the exquisite workmanship herein displayed would have wonfor the manufac-turers a firstplace among theart-workers i nthe preciousmetals. Yet thispiece was butonein a group ofmany others, pro-minent am onewhich were theHelicon Vase, theMilton Shield,and the Pom-peiian Toilette,works unsur-passed in moderntimes for genuineart value. Withmany of thesethe reader is ac-quainted throughthe illustrationsin these pages,and we now askhis attention tothis Cup as equal-ly worthy his re-