The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . ct, its body of gems as resplendent in color as Natures ownhandiwork. On page 490 we engrave three pieces of ornamental Faience from theexhibit of Count von Thun, made at his potteries in Klosterie, Bohemia, and 492 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. shown in the Austrian Court at the Centennial. These works show, in severalrespects, the good influence of the Imperial Austrian Museum of Art andIndustry, at Vienna, and are especially noteworthy for the excellence of their contours and the vig-orous modeling of therelief o
The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . ct, its body of gems as resplendent in color as Natures ownhandiwork. On page 490 we engrave three pieces of ornamental Faience from theexhibit of Count von Thun, made at his potteries in Klosterie, Bohemia, and 492 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. shown in the Austrian Court at the Centennial. These works show, in severalrespects, the good influence of the Imperial Austrian Museum of Art andIndustry, at Vienna, and are especially noteworthy for the excellence of their contours and the vig-orous modeling of therelief vase on the righthand of this groupwas one of the mostbrilliant pieces ofcolor decoration inthe Count von Thunscollection, and a tri-umph of the pottersskill in this designs, too, arerich and elegandyconceived, a,nd thehandles, in the shapeof leaf-tendrils, arecharmingly conven-tionalized. The Kiddermin-ster Carpet, manu-factured by ToMPKiN-soN & Adams, shownin our engraving onpage 491, illustratesso admirably the newprinciples of orna-. Cabinet: English Court. mental design formu-lated by the SouthKensington MuseumSchool and otherplaces of a like na-ture in England, thata reference to someof these principles, aslaid down by a writerof recognized author-ity, Gilbert R. Red-grave, who was forsome time Inspector-General for Art,Science and ArtDepartment, SouthKensington, will beinteresting and in-structive in this con-nection. In his Manualof Design, a bookwhich all students ofthe subject shouldcarefully peruse, , speakingof paper and other hangings, says that if the use of such materials is borne in mind, the proper deco-ration for them will at once be evident, since materials of this class ought tobear the same relation to the objects in the room that a background does to apicture. In art, a background, if well designed, has its own distinctive features, INDUSTRIAL ART. 493 yet these are to be so far suppressed and subdued as not to invite
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