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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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The Amazon (bronzed zinc): y, L. Molt Iron Co., Xen 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 engraving on page 269, is made entirely of glass ; yet if the reader saw
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Repousse Plated Ware: Reed iS^ Barton, Taunton. or could have seen the original, he must have wondered the more that all thairichness of color, gilding, high relief ornamentation, and delicate tracery ofintricate design could be produced in that material. It may well be considereda triumph in that branch of manufacture. As we recall the remarkable exhibitof LoBMEVR, OY ViENNA, from whose collection this vase is illustrated, it seemsas if every known metliod of manipulating glass had its example there. But 2/2 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. a chief place in the display was given to the exhibition of the manufacturerslatest discovery, the method of enameling a transparent glass of one color uponanother, so that, by grinding down the outer covering or cutting through to theunder surface, a variety of hues and colors especially brilliant and pleasing wasproduced. This vase is an example of this process. The famous statue of The Amazon engraved on page 270 is a favoritesubject for rep

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