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Title: The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 ..
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Shinn, Earl, 1838-1886 Smith, Walter Wilson, Joseph M. (Joseph Miller), 1838-1902
Subjects: Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publisher: Philadelphia, Gebbie & Barrie
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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hools. It would seem rather as if their treatmentof the precious metals was entirely according to their fancy, unconscious of rule.But the period during which Cellini and his fellow-artists worked was anexceptional cycle, and following it came a season of gradual decay irom badto worse, extending down almost to the present time. Now, only by a patientand painstaking study of the rare and precious examples of ancient metal-workpursued in our museums and private collections, can we hope to attain to alike perfection in the art. The English display of furniture certainly was one of the most interestingin this court. Almost every modern style, original or revived, was exhibited,and cabinet-makers vied with each other in making their stalls as attractive aspossible. Thus, to show off their furniture to the best anvantage and in INDUSTRIAL ART. i6s an appropriate manner, many exhibitors had their stalls boarded up at thesides and ceiled over, so as to form rooms. These again were papered or
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Mdal Tankard: Emik Plulippe, Paris. draped, painted and carpeted, in a manner appropriate to the articles of furni-ture to be shown. There were bed-rooms, dining-rooms, drawing-rooms, and 166 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. libraries, with not only the furniture proper, but pictures, statuary, vases, articlesof vertUy and bric-a-brac; in short, everything to give a homelike look andsense of occupancy to the apartment. Under these circumstances the articles for which all these pains had beentaken could be seen just as they would appear in actual use; and doubtlessmany orders from purchasers were secured by the judicious and carefullystudied arrangements that produced these charming effects. Among theseinteriors, someof the most notice-able were those be-lontrincj to Messrs.CoLLiNsoN & Lock,OF London. Notonly the artistic ar-rangement of theapartments, but thebeauty and excel-lence of the furniture made bycelebrated firmtracted manyors to their exhibit. MThe Cabinet which M KALE

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