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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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xcel-lence. In this groupwe have illus-trated a JewelCasket, wroughtin silver, whichwas exhibited inthe AustrianCourt. The pat-tern of flowersand leaves inter-woven into asintricate a net-work as natureherself weaves, isexecuted in hipfhrelief and withmuch elabora-tion. The examplesof FurnitureSilks on page376 are from the collection of textiles displayed in the Russian Court at the Centennial. Thepattern with which the fabric is enriched resembles the styles made popular in INDUSTRIAL ART. 383 France a number of years ago, and which have rarely been equaled in beautyof detail and richness of effect. There is, however, in these designs, lesselaboration and delicacy of outline than in the French work, while the colorsare more strongly contrasted and more broadly massed. The French taste in the decoration of certain textiles is well shown inour illustration, on page 377, of two specimens of Carpet, which were on viewin the French Court. They are remarkable examples of art applied to the
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Iron Grate: Steel 6» Garland, Sheffield. industry, and in this particular style of decoration they are about as perfect indesign and execution as it is possible to achieve. In the carpet on the left wehave a design in which the artist has striven to reproduce a bunch of flowersand grasses, arranged with studied negligence, as nearly in imitation of natureas is possible with the material at his command. Regarded simply as a pic-torial design or a careful study of nature, the work is very well done, and sucha perfect reproduction of the pattern in the textile is a remarkable triumph ofmechanical skill. These bouquets of flowers are dispersed at intervals on thecarpet, and connected by delicate garlands of flowers strewn in irregular linesover the surface. Bees, dragon-flies and birds are dotted down here and there 3«4 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. between the flower-garlands in a way to disguise the repeats of the pattern asmuch as possible. The second design is conceived in the

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