The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . endless variety 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 repdles, some of themcopied with surprising fidelity after nature, but most of them having that peculiartreatment characteristic of Chinese work, ornamented these articles, and acloser inspecdon revealed delicate and marvellously minute traceries in patternsof bewildering intricacy. These ardcles are, without exception, examples of
The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . endless variety 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 repdles, some of themcopied with surprising fidelity after nature, but most of them having that peculiartreatment characteristic of Chinese work, ornamented these articles, and acloser inspecdon revealed delicate and marvellously minute traceries in patternsof bewildering intricacy. These ardcles are, without exception, examples of the IX DUST RIAL ART. 5j opaque cloisonne enameliny on metal for which the Chinese have a world-wide reputation andsome of thepieces hereexhibited arevalued at sev-eral thousanddollars. Oneof the mostel egan t ofthese speci-mens, pur-chased by of this city,forms the sub-ject of our il-lustration onpage 155. This vasemeasu ressome five feetin height bythree feet inbreadth. Itsprevailingcolor is sea-green, butother colors,such as blue,yellow,and red. 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-n a men tat ionin this finepiece, but it isnecessary tou n d e r s t a n dsomething ofthe laboriousprocesses bywhich this ef-Iect was pro-duced in orderto appreciateits great ,in its broadestsense, is theact of fixing a Oak Cabinet: Siyers, Raii^-&? Co., Brussels. appear upon vitreous substance on any surface by fusion ; usually that surface is a metal Enamels are either transparent or opaque, and are colored by metallic oxides 154 THE INTERNA! 10NAL EXHIBITION, 1S76. Tlie processes by which it is embedded upon or in the metal give the namescloisonne and cJianiplcic. There are other processes of enamehng-, but it isneedless to speak of them in this connection. In cloisonne enameling the patternis formed by slender str
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