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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
Text Appearing Before Image:
Vase, in Bronze: jfapanese Court. embroidered inbrown silk, witha light, graceful,foliated pattern.The borders,bands and stripesseparating theseveral divisionsof the portiereare conceived andexecuted withspirit and in ex-cellent harmonywith the generaldesign. A noticeablefeature in the dis-play of Germanart pottery, fromthe Royal Porce-lain Works atBerlin, was thenumber and va- riety of vases shown. There were specimens of the form and styles of deco-ration obtaining in Japan, China and Persia some centuries ago, with copies inmajolica of the famous Urbino ware, the handles formed of curiously twistedand contorted snakes and grotesques. There were also tall, slender amphorae,shaped after the manner of the vessels used by the ancient Greeks and Romansfor carrying wine and oil or for preserving the ashes of the dead; while promi- 174 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876.
Text Appearing After Image:
Water-Pitcher: Reed & Barton, Taunton. nent in the collection were the Victoria vases with their dragon-handles andgracefully curved outline, in a shape which seems to be a favorite one at this INDUSTRIAL ART 175 time. Of these latter, the most noticeable was the huge Victoria vase par