Examples of household taste . Lace Curtain : English Court. 254 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. No one glancing at our engraving on page 247 would imagine that it wasother than a work of art intended for purely ornamental purposes. Only theglass globe rising from the amphora which the girl is balancing on her shoulderbetrays the use for which this lovely bronze is designed. Observing this, we know at once that thisglobe conceals a gas-burner, and that theplace for this figure isthe newel-post of astairway, or in someother position wherelight is needed. Weare not disposed toagree with those
Examples of household taste . Lace Curtain : English Court. 254 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. No one glancing at our engraving on page 247 would imagine that it wasother than a work of art intended for purely ornamental purposes. Only theglass globe rising from the amphora which the girl is balancing on her shoulderbetrays the use for which this lovely bronze is designed. Observing this, we know at once that thisglobe conceals a gas-burner, and that theplace for this figure isthe newel-post of astairway, or in someother position wherelight is needed. Weare not disposed toagree with those art-advocates who depre-cate the use of figuressuch as this for pur-poses of this kind,though we heartilycondemn the absurddisproportion whichis often seen betweenthe figures themselvesand the illuminatingapparatus they haveto bear. Unquestion-ably this gracefulGreek girl, with the. Eve Nursing Cain and Abel: Terra-cotta inEnglish Court. water-jar poised onher shoulder, is a fin-ished group, and allabove the jar is outof place, and in asense, inharmonious;yet the addition is soevident and so en-tirely separated fromthe figure itself as towork its own remedy,and in contemplatingthe one we pay littleor no attention to theother. Especially atnight when the gas islit is this separationthe more complete,and for that matterthere is no reasonwhy everything notimmediately pertain-ing to the statue couldnot be so arranged as to be removed during the day, if any one so desired. Examples of jewelry, manufactured by Messrs. Geissel & Hartrung, ofHanau, Germany, are shown on page 248, in illustration of the styles ofworkmanship popular among the women of that country. The necklace itselfis of a severely plain pattern, but the pendant hanging from it is quite elabo-rate. This latter is of finely-chased gold and filigree-work, something after the INDUSTRIAL ART. 255
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