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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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bunch of flowersand grasses, arranged with studied negligence, as nearly in imitation of natureas is possible with the material at his command. Regarded simply as a pic-torial design or a careful study of nature, the work is very well done, and sucha perfect reproduction of the pattern in the textile is a remarkable triumph ofmechanical skill. These bouquets of flowers are dispersed at intervals on thecarpet, and connected by delicate garlands of flowers strewn in irregular linesover the surface. Bees, dragon-flies and birds are dotted down here and there 3«4 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. between the flower-garlands in a way to disguise the repeats of the pattern asmuch as possible. The second design is conceived in the same spirit as the above, but withrather more of a geometric arrangement of the several parts of the pattern.Several bouquets of flowers, having the same general form, but differingslightly in detail, are disposed over the surface of the carpet at regular inter-
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Glass Plaque: M. Lobmeyr, Vienna. vals, and connected together by a running vine, woven in and out between theother figures. From the display of artistic pottery, bronzes, fancy furniture, etc., madeby M. Jules Houry, of Paris, we select the group of objects illustrated onpage 378. M. Houry, beside being a manufacturer, is also an agent for objetsdart and fantaisie, and his stall therefore contained a collection of ornamentsand articles of furniture of the most varied description. M. Houry, however,makes a specialty of porcelain plaques of a novel description, for mounting inetageres, jardinieres, etc. These plaques have figures and arabesque patternsmodeled in very low relief, over which a transparent blue glaze is floated before INDUSTRIAL ART. 3*5

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