Examples of household taste . y of articles, principally vases, in sea-green andpale blue enamel, ranged around the eastern and northern sides of the and grotesque forms, birds, beasts, and reptiles, some of themcopied with surprising fidelity after nature, but most of them having that peculiartreatment characteristic of Chinese work, ornamented these articles, and acloser inspection revealed delicate and marvellously minute traceries in patternsof bewildering intricacy. These articles are, without exception, examples of the INDUSTRIAL ART. *53 opaque cloisonne enameling on
Examples of household taste . y of articles, principally vases, in sea-green andpale blue enamel, ranged around the eastern and northern sides of the and grotesque forms, birds, beasts, and reptiles, some of themcopied with surprising fidelity after nature, but most of them having that peculiartreatment characteristic of Chinese work, ornamented these articles, and acloser inspection revealed delicate and marvellously minute traceries in patternsof bewildering intricacy. These articles are, without exception, examples of the INDUSTRIAL ART. *53 opaque cloisonne enameling on metal for which the Chinese have a world-wide reputation andsome of thepieces hereexhibited arevalued at sev-eral thousanddollars. Oneof the mostel ega n t ofthese speci-mens, pur-chased by of this city,forms the sub-ject of our il-lustration on page 155- This vasemeasu ressome five feetin height bythree feet inbreadth. Itsprevailingcolor is sea-green, butother colors,such as blue,yellow,and redappear upon. Oak Cabinet: Snyers, Rairg &* Co., Brussels. its surface,andthe birds,which are mar-vels of work-manship, havethe color oftheir plumagecopied afternature. Ourengraving ex-cellently illus-trates the ex-ceeding deli-cacy of the or-namentationin this finepiece, but it isnecessary tounderstandsomething ofthe laboriousprocesses bywhich this ef-fect was pro-duced in orderto appreciateits great ,in its broadestsense, is theact of fixings a vitreous substance on any surface by fusion; usually that surface is a are either transparent or opaque, and are colored by metallic oxides. 154 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. The processes by which it is embedded upon or in the metal give the namescloisonne and cliampleve. There are other processes of enameling, but it isneedless to speak of them in this connection. In cloisonne enameling the patternis formed by slender strips of metal being bent into required shape and fixed tothe plate. Int
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