Examples of household taste . esent instance, and the whole is further adorned by the engraverschisel. From the base—which is made of nickel-silver polished like a mirror torepresent water—rise four graceful columns supporting a dome. On either sideof the pillars, standing in shells of a conventional pattern, are figures. On oneside, Amphitrite drawn by walrusses; on the other, Neptune, his car attached toa pair of Tritons who are heralding his approach. From the centre of the domerises a central shaft supporting a bowl of very graceful design, around whosebase rise four arms curving outward a
Examples of household taste . esent instance, and the whole is further adorned by the engraverschisel. From the base—which is made of nickel-silver polished like a mirror torepresent water—rise four graceful columns supporting a dome. On either sideof the pillars, standing in shells of a conventional pattern, are figures. On oneside, Amphitrite drawn by walrusses; on the other, Neptune, his car attached toa pair of Tritons who are heralding his approach. From the centre of the domerises a central shaft supporting a bowl of very graceful design, around whosebase rise four arms curving outward and holding suspended from their extremitiesfour other bowls of similar pattern to the first, presenting as a whole an extremelygraceful and appropriate design. From distant Cairo comes one of the gems of the Exhibition, of which wegive an engraving on page 24. It is a Cabinet, designed in a style of thepurest Arabic, one of the contributions of the celebrated Parvis, whose atelier is 22 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, The Neptune Epergne : Aferiiien Britannia Co. INDUSTRIAL ART. 23 well known to all art lovers who have visited the interesting city oi the fine example of the cabinet-makers skill is built of sycamore-wood andebony. It is inlaid with ivory and mother-of-pearl, in those highly effectivepatterns that are at once the admiration and the wonder of other detail has been worked up and studied from the specimens of the bestperiod of Arabic art. Nothing could be more effective than the result. Thereis but little carving—none indeed in high relief—and yet an effect has been pro-duced more ornate than any carving. The richness of the tracery in the centralpanel is particularly fine, and taken as a whole it deserves commendation of thehighest description. The possessor of such a piece of work as this Cabinetwould never tire of it, simply because the harmony of its parts would be con-stantly asserting themselves, and, like in a good picture
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