Examples of household taste . the man-ner we have alludedto by which thefurniture is set 168 is one of many off. This cabinet is constructed of a closely-grained wood, ebonized and highlypolished. The design and carving are of the simplest description, being areturn to that old and honest pattern which was driven out by the rococo,bombe and other showy but meretricious styles introduced from France. With the exception of a light open-work border at the top, and the bandsand fillets to the rails and posts, the wood-work of this cabinet is perfectlyplain. After the cabinet-makers part was finish
Examples of household taste . the man-ner we have alludedto by which thefurniture is set 168 is one of many off. This cabinet is constructed of a closely-grained wood, ebonized and highlypolished. The design and carving are of the simplest description, being areturn to that old and honest pattern which was driven out by the rococo,bombe and other showy but meretricious styles introduced from France. With the exception of a light open-work border at the top, and the bandsand fillets to the rails and posts, the wood-work of this cabinet is perfectlyplain. After the cabinet-makers part was finished it was given over to thedecorator, or, more probably, the cabinet-maker was given the decorators INDUSTRIAL ART. 167 finished work to put in place. Be that as it may, however, the reader will see,by looking at our engraving, that each one of the panels to the doors containsa figure of some kind, either of human beings or of beasts or birds. Further-more, the panels at the back and top are decorated with arabesque patterns. Ear-rings : N. A. Bclezza, Rome. of a lio-ht and graceful kind, which can be seen better in the enlarged sectionalview of an end of the cabinet on page 169. All this work is done in color,painted on by hand, and its high artistic excellence adds much to the beautyof the piece. But the chief decorative feature in the whole are the figure-panels in thedoors, already mentioned. These are painted by the artist, Murray, whostands at the head of his profession in England for this kind of work. The 168 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876.
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