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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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vibration of themetal, when thehours are struck, isnot muffled, butrings out clearlyand with distinct-ness. Another fea-ture, companion- able or distracting, according to ones mood, is the pendulum swinging backwardand forward across the face of the dial, attracting the eye by its mute motionto the ever-advancing hands and to the significant legend inscribed above them. 346 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. We have already made mention of the admirable display of wrought-ironwork in the English Court of the Exhibition, notable examples of which havebeen illustrated in these pages. Another example, and one well worthy ofcareful study by those interested in the subject, are the Norwich Gates, manu-factured by Barnard, Bishop & Barnards, of Norwich, England, shown onpages 342 and 343. These gates are made of wrought-iron, welded togetherand secured by wrought-iron bands. Each leaf, tendril, sprig, and branch ofthe scroll-work was wrought by hand from forged iron. In no instance was
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Faience of Gien et Loiret: French Collective Exhibit. the die, stamp, mould or matrix used. The work is in every respect creditableto the skill of the artisan and the artist. In considering the design it will beseen that it has two principal features—open scroll-work and panels. For theformer the oak and thorn are taken as types, the analysis of their foliage andflowers and method of growth being studied with a view to the ornamentalforms to be derived from them. In the same way the ornamentation of thepanels in the lower part of the piers is derived from the wheat- and corn-flower, the oat, the barley and wild poppy, the grape, the rose, the purple iris, INDUSTRIAL ART. 347 the monkshood and wild geranium, with other flowers. In the upper panelsare various kinds of heaths, wherein the rebus of the firm—Four Bees—andthe monogram of the designer are introduced. The upper panels of the gates are ornamented on one side with swallowsand other birds, and a pattern of apple-blossoms,

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