Examples of household taste . t of M. Bellezza,at Milan. Quite a triumph in theart of glass manufactureis illustrated in the Or- namental Vase engraved a & £ */m Bronze Standard: on page 192, from theestablishment of Lob-meyr, in Vienna. Thisremarkable piece showsthe newly re-discoveredprocess of enamelingwith glass on glass. Theouter surface of the vaseis of a brilliant red enam-el, the pattern being cutthrough to the crystalbeneath. The ornamen-tation on the base is acombination of chasingand gilding very rich ineffect, while the figures,of clear white glass, aretreated in such a manneras to
Examples of household taste . t of M. Bellezza,at Milan. Quite a triumph in theart of glass manufactureis illustrated in the Or- namental Vase engraved a & £ */m Bronze Standard: on page 192, from theestablishment of Lob-meyr, in Vienna. Thisremarkable piece showsthe newly re-discoveredprocess of enamelingwith glass on glass. Theouter surface of the vaseis of a brilliant red enam-el, the pattern being cutthrough to the crystalbeneath. The ornamen-tation on the base is acombination of chasingand gilding very rich ineffect, while the figures,of clear white glass, aretreated in such a manneras to deaden the lustreand enable the contoursof the body and the linesof the drapery to be moreeasily distinguished. Within the past quar-ter of a century an aston-ishing impulse has beengiven to the art of de^signing by the adoption,in almost every part ofEurope, of courses ofinstruction in drawingin the lower grades ofschools. France has Mitchell, Vance & Co., IV. V. a]ways reCOgnized the WT; iSifci INDUSTRIAL ART. 197. importance of thisknowledge; but evenin that country theeducation of childrenaccording to a scien-tific system has beenlargely improved andelaborated within thelast two decades. Theimportance of a know-ledge of drawing andinstruction in the cor-rect principles of de-sign, in a commercialor purely utilitarianpoint of view, canhardly be overesti-mated. England, af-ter the Exhibition of1851, was persuadedwith some difficulty totry the experiment ofintroducing- such in-struction into the pub-lic schools and pro-viding institutes formore advanced study,and the result hasbeen such as to si-lence the most bigot-ed Opponents of the Bronze Stand and Vase: Collective Exhibit of France. scheme. That nation, costly fabrics, where elaborate decoration is appropriate, have all the beauty of painting. Take, for example, the from being, next tothe United States, atthe foot of the list, asfar as industrial artwas concerned, in theearlier InternationalExhibitions, soon roseto a fi
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