. The industrial arts in Spain. of wood, uponwhich the ironwork is laid. The traceries are cut out of twoplates of iron, laid one over the other, and the ironwork is inpart gilded, but I do not think that this is original. The canopyis of the same age and character, and the whole effect is ver^rich at the same time that it is very novel. I saw other pulpits,but none so old as this. Among the applications of iron to decorations of civil architec-ture must be specially mentioned the nails and knockers on thedoors of houses, which are so characteristic of Toledo and otherold Spanish towns. This s
. The industrial arts in Spain. of wood, uponwhich the ironwork is laid. The traceries are cut out of twoplates of iron, laid one over the other, and the ironwork is inpart gilded, but I do not think that this is original. The canopyis of the same age and character, and the whole effect is ver^rich at the same time that it is very novel. I saw other pulpits,but none so old as this. Among the applications of iron to decorations of civil architec-ture must be specially mentioned the nails and knockers on thedoors of houses, which are so characteristic of Toledo and otherold Spanish towns. This style was imitated from the doors still exist at the Alhambra, Granada, covered withenormous heads of nails of a half-spherical form with embossedpattern. These same nails are constantly to be found on old 66 SPANISH INDUSTRIAL ART, Spanish houses, to which are added in the angles pieces of iron ofa most artistic order. A large number of these nails from Toledo^are in the Kensington Museum. Examples of two are
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