Examples of household taste . els. On Sunday,which is the working-mans holiday, the visitorto the great metropoliswill find all the superbgalleries and museumsthronged with crowdsof cleanly, orderly arti-zans of both people have paidno entrance-fee to gainaccess to the treasuresabout them. The doorsare open to one andall irrespective of class,and the only exactionis an orderly and deco-rous behavior. Visiting any one ofthese museums on aSunday, it is curious toobserve what keen and INDUSTRIAL ART. 101 intelligent critics these artisans are. Especially in subjects with which theiroc
Examples of household taste . els. On Sunday,which is the working-mans holiday, the visitorto the great metropoliswill find all the superbgalleries and museumsthronged with crowdsof cleanly, orderly arti-zans of both people have paidno entrance-fee to gainaccess to the treasuresabout them. The doorsare open to one andall irrespective of class,and the only exactionis an orderly and deco-rous behavior. Visiting any one ofthese museums on aSunday, it is curious toobserve what keen and INDUSTRIAL ART. 101 intelligent critics these artisans are. Especially in subjects with which theiroccupation makes them acquainted, is their judgment it any wonder, then,that these men,going back totheir work atthe beginningof the week,take with theminto the shopsand manufac-tories an art-feeling, foster-ed and encour-aged by thesplendid ex-amples theyhave expres-sion in thework they af-terward pro-duce? No:when wethink of thisfact, the reasonwhy Frenchworkmen ex-ceed all othersas art-workers. Marble Font: Struthers & Sons, Philadelphia. becomes evi-dent. Look at thisLamp as aspecimen ofFrench how per-fectly plainand simple itis, and yetwhat eleganceand grace ofproportion itbears! A thin,fluted stand-ard supportedon curved legsterminates ina broad capi-tal, on whichrests a wingedgriffin. Abovethis figure is arest or socket,in which standsthe body ofthe lamp, alovely ampho-ra draped withgarlands of flowers. Light chains fastened to the socket-ring depend nearly to the baseof the standard, and remove the appearance of thinness to that portion of the 102 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. article at the same time that they give an effect of lightness. Chain orna-mentation such as this was practised by the ancients at a very early day. TheGreeks especially, who studied ornamentation of all kinds with zeal and enthu-siasm, early discovered the fine curves and lines which were obtainable by thismeans; and the reader will not fail to observe
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