Examples of household taste . German Steingut: Merkelbach 6^ Wick, Grenzhausen. pattern, separating the zone from the arabesques and garlands which cover theupper part of the bowl. Around the neck is a band of rosettes in low reliefpicked out with color. The ewer, the largest piece of the three, is copied after a very favoritestyle. The bowl is flattened, with medallions containing relief ornamentationand a display of arms and heraldic devices upon the sides. A mask is intro-duced as an ornament to the spout, but the handle is made very plain and asunobtrusive as possible. The third piece part
Examples of household taste . German Steingut: Merkelbach 6^ Wick, Grenzhausen. pattern, separating the zone from the arabesques and garlands which cover theupper part of the bowl. Around the neck is a band of rosettes in low reliefpicked out with color. The ewer, the largest piece of the three, is copied after a very favoritestyle. The bowl is flattened, with medallions containing relief ornamentationand a display of arms and heraldic devices upon the sides. A mask is intro-duced as an ornament to the spout, but the handle is made very plain and asunobtrusive as possible. The third piece partakes in its decoration of a more oriental style. Itsshape, too, is Eastern and might have been copied from a Moorish vase. The io6 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, Iron Fountain : The y. L. Mott Co., New York. decoration consists of brilliant arabesques dispersed over the surface in a pleasingand effective manner. On this page we present our readers with an illustration of the handsome INDUSTRIAL ART. 107 Fountain manufactured by the J. L. Mott Co., of New York, that graces thenorthern portion of the nave of the Main Exhibition Building. This fineexample of artistic casting is erected just as it is seen in the engraving atone of the divisions of the nave, and is kept playing water all day long. Indeed, the only way to judge of the beauty of a fountain is to see it inoperation, for the fall and curves of the water form a component part of the
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