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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
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Group of Porcelain Vases: Austrian Court. a re-discovery of the ancient processes, which surpass all modern work. Therewas exhibited at the Centennial a small but exceedingly interesting collectionof faience made at a fabriquc near Naples, in which the efforts of one man inthis direction were illustrated. In making and decorating his wares he endeav-ored to follow as nearly as possible the traditional methods which producedwhat are now the treasures of our cabinets. Thouoh the work was somewhat INDUSTRIAL ART. 337 crude, there was abundant evidence to prove that he was laboring in the rightdirection. Some of the pigments, the blues and greens in particular, were quite
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y. Tfmp/cfiTt ^ Co.. Glasgow. Scot/.itnL as brilliant and of a purer color than those in ordinary use which are com-monly imported from Germany. The artist had not reached that point when 338 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. he felt that he could attempt the production of the lustered ware, the truemajolica, but he was confident that he would attain to that stage in due season. Our illustration on page 337 represents a section of a Carpet exhibitedby Messrs. J. Templeton & Co., of Glasgow, Scotland. The pattern in thecentre consists of geometric figures, as graceful and delicate as snow-crystals,symmetrically arranged on a ground of neutral color, but two or three shadesdarker than the figures themselves. At regular intervals, medallions of a bright,positive color are introduced, on which are small, flower-shaped figures of thesame hue as the pattern in the other portion of the fabric. A bright border,with a much lighter ground, surrounds the centre, and makes an effective con-

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