The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . ) will be recog-nized by every onewho visited the Ja-panese Court asamong the most no-table objects in thatwonderful collec-tion of oriental vases standabout four feet inheight. They aremade of bronze, afavorite materialwith the Japanesemetal-workers, whoare certainly un-surpassed by anypeople in the worldfor originality ofdesign and skill inexecution. The ex-amples before usare excellent speci-mens of their pecu-liar in ,thod. In thegrotesques at thebase and in therelief ornamenta-tion on the sides we see that
The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . ) will be recog-nized by every onewho visited the Ja-panese Court asamong the most no-table objects in thatwonderful collec-tion of oriental vases standabout four feet inheight. They aremade of bronze, afavorite materialwith the Japanesemetal-workers, whoare certainly un-surpassed by anypeople in the worldfor originality ofdesign and skill inexecution. The ex-amples before usare excellent speci-mens of their pecu-liar in ,thod. In thegrotesques at thebase and in therelief ornamenta-tion on the sides we see that peculiar exaggeration and distortion of naturalobjects which many people prefer to the conventionalism obtaining with European. INDUSTRIAL ART. 171 artists. Here, too, in the elaboration of minute designs on the collars and therim and in tlie superbly executed handles, we see the evidence of a patient,painstaking labor such as only oriental workmen practice. The Swinging Pitcher, which forms the subject of our illustration on page174, will commend itself to every one as a capital and novel idea. In thiscountry, where the use of ice is almost universal, and where it is consumed inquantities that astonish foreigners, ice-pitchers are a necessity. Many of these are made of sil-ver or platedware, and are ofconsiderable large are they,in fact, that whenin use their weightis a serious objec-tion to them, anobjection whichthis excellent in-vention doesaway with entire-ly. Here thepitcher is hung ina frame, which isprovided with a\andle by whichto carry it, so
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