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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
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Bohemian Glass Vase and Pedestal: Lobmeyr, Vienna 270 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. declaim most against. These instructors say that to have wreaths and garlandsof flowers, imitating nature, woven into a carpet which we walk over, or intoa fabric which we sit down upon, is quite contrary to the canons of aestheticart; yet, for all that, the best skill of French workmen, the most artistic work-
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Thc Amazon (bronzed zinc): f. L. Mott Iron Co., New York. men in the world, continues to be employed in weaving just such patterns intothe finest and most costly fabrics used for the purposes named. The example of Lace which we engrave on page 268 from the collectiveexhibit of Brussels differs only in elaborateness and pattern from the speci-mens already illustrated. Like those the fancy of the designer here has brought INDUSTRIAL ART. 271 flowers and ferns together in beautiful groupings, and the skill of the lace-worker has been taxed to reproduce the pattern, thread by thread and stitchby stitch, in the delicate network which keeps the figures in the place. It seems hardly credible that the elaborate Vase and Pedestal, seen inour enoraving on page 269, is made entirely of glass; yet if the reader saw

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  • bookdecade:1870
  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Centennial_Exhibition__1876___Philadelphia__Pa__
  • booksubject:Decorative_arts
  • bookpublisher:New_York__R__Worthington
  • bookcontributor:Sterling_and_Francine_Clark_Art_Institute_Library
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