The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . elephantstrunks serve asstandards to thebase,and one wliichat once suggeststhe French originof a work thatin other respectsclosely follows Chi-nese or Japanesemodels. A work whichattracted consider-able attention inthe French Courtwas the beautifuland elaborate Altar Clothshown in our en-graving on page198. A study ofthis very remark-able piece of em-broidery will am-ply repay thereader, who mustbe ignorant indeedif he fails to dis-cover the analogyof the parts andtheir illustration ofthe sacred cannot be, whensu
The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . elephantstrunks serve asstandards to thebase,and one wliichat once suggeststhe French originof a work thatin other respectsclosely follows Chi-nese or Japanesemodels. A work whichattracted consider-able attention inthe French Courtwas the beautifuland elaborate Altar Clothshown in our en-graving on page198. A study ofthis very remark-able piece of em-broidery will am-ply repay thereader, who mustbe ignorant indeedif he fails to dis-cover the analogyof the parts andtheir illustration ofthe sacred cannot be, whensuch work as thisis executed, that thedays •When art was slil] religion have passed be-yond recall. Our illustrationson page 199 takeus back to a timewhen the workers in precious metal executed objects that have been the wonder and the admira-tion of all succeeding generations. The objects themselves are of modernmanufacture, yet so closely do they imitate the antique originals that only suchconnoisseurs as their maker, Signor Alessandro Castellani, of Rome, would be. Pitcher: French ColUitive Exhibtt. INDUSTRIAL ART. 203 able to detect the difference, if any there is, in the texture of the gold or thefineness of the workmanship. As long as Europe has workmen who possessthe art-knowledge and the skill requisite to produce such works as these, thereis no danger of the jewelers—or, more properly speaking, the goldsmiths—artdegenerating. The study of the forms and the re-discovery of the methodswhich obtained among the artisans in the best period of metal-working is rapidlygaining for goldsmiths of the present age a first rank among artists. The Queens Cur-T.\iN, from the Roy-al School of ArtNeedlework, shownon page 200, is socalled because HerGracious Majesty,the Queen, designedthe pattern withwhich the border ofthe curtains and thevallance above areembroidered. It isa charming piece ofwork in itself, butit is chiefly note-worthy for the ex-ample thus set byHer Majesty to wom
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