. Art crafts for amateurs . No. 43.—Original Design for Plaque, representing boy carries aloft a torch of stars and is riding upon an owl. strength in design as well as civil life. The foreshorteningof forms can only be suggested, and a certain simplicitymust be preserved so as to avoid crowding and a few well-defined forms and give prominence to parts BEATEN METAL WORK OR REPOUSSE. 65 of the design, leaving others almost to lose introduction of the frog and snail may be objected toby some. I am not sure that Mr. Gilbert Marks would. Ko. 44. —Original De
. Art crafts for amateurs . No. 43.—Original Design for Plaque, representing boy carries aloft a torch of stars and is riding upon an owl. strength in design as well as civil life. The foreshorteningof forms can only be suggested, and a certain simplicitymust be preserved so as to avoid crowding and a few well-defined forms and give prominence to parts BEATEN METAL WORK OR REPOUSSE. 65 of the design, leaving others almost to lose introduction of the frog and snail may be objected toby some. I am not sure that Mr. Gilbert Marks would. Ko. 44. —Original Design for Dish, with figure of Infant Neptune seatedon a fish, with ornamental treatment of waves in background. advocate their admission into the design ; still I have afeeling that the scheme is made more interesting as well asbeing helped by the introduction of animal forms, as they■can be made a feature of in themselves as well as being a foil F 66 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. to the plants. The border of butterflies on the base isbetter, it seems to me, than introducing a floral border, aswe then confine our foliage to one particular part of thebowl. Such articles as large bowls and coalscuttles arevery pleasant if merely beaten into shape. It would cer-tainly be good practice to get a prentice han in on suchworks as these. No. 42 is an example of modern Frenchbeaten silver, and was in the Paris Exhibition, 1900. Itshows the present strong naturalistic tendency in France,which is a wholesome recoil from the very stereotyped witof the average French craftsmen. T
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