Examples of household taste . e embroidered in subdued shades of brown and green. The frieze containsfour arched niches separated by columns. In the niches are four female figuresemblematic of the arts—Poetry, Sculpture, Painting, and Music. Below these INDUSTRIAL ART. 173 is a vallance, with garlands of flowers surrounding baskets of fruits and cereals,typical of Plenty. Beneath this again, and above the portiere, is a panel onwhich the three Fates—Clothe, Lachesis and Atropos—are busy at their workof drawing, spinning and cutting the thread of life. The two curtains to theportiere contain fu
Examples of household taste . e embroidered in subdued shades of brown and green. The frieze containsfour arched niches separated by columns. In the niches are four female figuresemblematic of the arts—Poetry, Sculpture, Painting, and Music. Below these INDUSTRIAL ART. 173 is a vallance, with garlands of flowers surrounding baskets of fruits and cereals,typical of Plenty. Beneath this again, and above the portiere, is a panel onwhich the three Fates—Clothe, Lachesis and Atropos—are busy at their workof drawing, spinning and cutting the thread of life. The two curtains to theportiere contain full-length female figures, personifying the salutations, Vale and Salve. Thewall-hangings oneither side are ofgold twill, em-broidered withelaborate designssignifying the ele-ments. Thesehangings are byfar the most ef-fective parts ofthe whole, bothfor contrast ofcolor and spiritof design, andthey will be foundworthy of carefulexamination. Thepilasters whichcomplete this re-markable set ofwall-hangings areof white sateen. Vase, in Bronze: jfapanese Court. embroidered inbrown silk, witha light, graceful,foliated borders,bands and stripesseparating theseveral divisionsof the portiereare conceived andexecuted withspirit and in ex-cellent harmonywith the generaldesign. A noticeablefeature in the dis-play of Germanart pottery, fromthe Royal Porce-lain Works atBerlin, was thenumber and va- riety of vases shown. There were specimens of the form and styles of deco-ration obtaining in Japan, China and Persia some centuries ago, with copies inmajolica of the famous Urbino ware, the handles formed of curiously twistedand contorted snakes and grotesques. There were also tall, slender amphorae,shaped after the manner of the vessels used by the ancient Greeks and Romansfor carrying wine and oil or for preserving the ashes of the dead; while promi- 174 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876.
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