. Art crafts for amateurs . rs, and that on a circular dish, is not likely to lead toso effective or harmonious a result as where the figure isschemed out and made to take its place in the design. Afanciful idea, therefore, as the young Neptune on the backof a fish (No. 44), or the one of Night (No. 43), where theboy carries a torch of stars, appears to me more a decora-tion than a man smoking a pipe, or a woman feeding swans,for in the one case you are removed from the actual, andtaken into the world of the imagination, where anything ispossible, whereas if you go in for a realistic design, t
. Art crafts for amateurs . rs, and that on a circular dish, is not likely to lead toso effective or harmonious a result as where the figure isschemed out and made to take its place in the design. Afanciful idea, therefore, as the young Neptune on the backof a fish (No. 44), or the one of Night (No. 43), where theboy carries a torch of stars, appears to me more a decora-tion than a man smoking a pipe, or a woman feeding swans,for in the one case you are removed from the actual, andtaken into the world of the imagination, where anything ispossible, whereas if you go in for a realistic design, thelimitations the craft imposes on you are chiefly felt. BEATEN METAL WORK OR REPOUSSE. 67 Those who have only beaten copper will be charmed withsilver as a metal to work in. The surface of beaten silveris, as I have said, most beautiful, and the same designwrought in silver will present a very different appearanceto what it does in copper, the white metal giving a choice-ness and refinement wanting in the coarser No. 45.—Salt Cellar and Mustard Pot beaten in Silver at EssexHouse, fiom designs by Mr. Ashbee. I am able to give examples of wrought silver in Nos. 41and 45, but several other of the designs might have beenbeaten in silver. Essex House produces some characteristic examples ofwrought silver and the two examples in No. 45 are certainly 68 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. individual in design, and if we examine the details ofthe two articles we see that the motifs are remarkably
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