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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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have been purchased by Sir RichardWallace for six hundred oaiineas. The superb Piano which we illustrate on page 120 was manufactured byMessrs. Hallet, Davis & Co., of Boston, and is undoubtedly the most elabo-rately constructed instrument of its kind at the Exhibition. The case is madeof ebony with an occasional inlaying of narrow strips of precious wood togive effect to the ornamentation. The reader will see from our engraving howremarkable this ornamentation is. All of it is hand-work, the production ofskillful carvers. Much of it is in very high relief; other portions, such as thebirds and urn on the upper portion and the wreaths at the base, are worked outin full; while the panels, with their wreaths, scrolls, medallions, and symbolicfigures, are elaborated with great fidelity of detail. It is one of the anomalies of art that the piano, which contains the soulof harmony, is generally the least harmonious and ungraceful-appearing object 120 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, i876.
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Piano, Ebony Case : Hallet, Davis &* Co., Boston. of the modern drawing-room. It is usually bow-legged and veneered, badlyshaped and worse decorated. The old-fashioned spinet was decidedly superior

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