The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . Buffet: Collinson ^ Locke, London. conveying a sense of a tangle of branches of trees and tall grasses by themultiplication of the curves and intricate convolutions of lines with which hehas covered the panel. Among these, as in a thicket, are birds, reptiles and INDUSTRIAL ART. 241. Etony : O. />. Fredfihh, Draden. insects, executed with much spirit and skill. In the centre of the panel Is afanciful figure, half bird, half monster, above which, standing in a shell, is apretty group of Venus and Cupid. There is
The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . Buffet: Collinson ^ Locke, London. conveying a sense of a tangle of branches of trees and tall grasses by themultiplication of the curves and intricate convolutions of lines with which hehas covered the panel. Among these, as in a thicket, are birds, reptiles and INDUSTRIAL ART. 241. Etony : O. />. Fredfihh, Draden. insects, executed with much spirit and skill. In the centre of the panel Is afanciful figure, half bird, half monster, above which, standing in a shell, is apretty group of Venus and Cupid. There is something peculiarly free and 242 THE INTERNATIO XAL EXHIBITION, iSj6. vioforous in the execuUon of this desiirn, which, as a whole, is one of ereatbeauty. After the Court of Arbitration on the Alabama question, consisting of fivemembers appointed by thi- Governments of the United States, Great Britain,Italy, Switzerland, and Brazil, which met at Geneva in 1871, had completed theirlabors, our Government, in recoL,mition of their services, presented each of theforeign commissioners with a service of handsome plate. One of these pieces,
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