The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . ecious stones. But the present art-revivalwhich is perceptible throughout Europe is having its effect here as elsewherein a tendency to go back again to the simplicity and severity of mediaevalmodels. On page 369 we engrave an illustration of a Candelabra, made entirelyof wrought metal, which was exhibited by Messrs. Hart & Son, of London. INDUSTRIAL ART. 373 The design forthis fine piece of work Is /^l ^fc»?^i^fcvery HMit and \Va^^^*^graceful and ^excellent in , ^oudine. The |^^=stem is sup-ported by four >^^^B^^-rods
The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . ecious stones. But the present art-revivalwhich is perceptible throughout Europe is having its effect here as elsewherein a tendency to go back again to the simplicity and severity of mediaevalmodels. On page 369 we engrave an illustration of a Candelabra, made entirelyof wrought metal, which was exhibited by Messrs. Hart & Son, of London. INDUSTRIAL ART. 373 The design forthis fine piece of work Is /^l ^fc»?^i^fcvery HMit and \Va^^^*^graceful and ^excellent in , ^oudine. The |^^=stem is sup-ported by four >^^^B^^-rods sloping \ ^W-outward to a if^ ^broad ring at >pthe base, to |^which they areattached. Theupper ends ot feilthese rods are | curved aroundlike tendrils,terminating inthree same leaf-pattern is in-troduced intothe space be-tween the rodsand stem, serv-ing the doublepurpose of an *^^^Ef ^ornamental fin- |ish and a braceto the several readers as representing the Music and Poetry Vase, exhibitedElkington & Co., OF Birmingham, England. The vase Is ol. parts. The up-per part of theCandelabra ismore highlyornamentedthan the lower,but a variationof the sameleaf-patternfurnishes are tworincTs, of four o lights each, thesmaller abovethe larger,each support-ed by bracketsfastened to thestem, whichends in a singlelieht raised aproportionatedistance abovethe others. The centralfigure of thegroup illus-trated on page370 will be rec-ognize d bymany of our by the Messrs. silver, decorated 374 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. with rep07isse - work,executed in such lowreHef as not to inter-fere with the classicoutline of the vaseitself. The figure onthis side represents
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