Examples of household taste . Portion oj Curtain : Royal School of Art Needle-work. symbolizing Day; and the ivy and pine, the owl and the bat, symbolizingNight. In the lower panels of the gate the four seasons are typified by the nakedbranch, the branch with bud and blossom, the full foliage of summer, and thefruit of autumn. All of this enrichment is executed in repousse, the designhaving first been drawn on the metal plate, which was then placed on a softmetal table, and the pattern beaten up from the back with hammers andpunches, and finished on the face with similar tools. 348 THE INTERNA
Examples of household taste . Portion oj Curtain : Royal School of Art Needle-work. symbolizing Day; and the ivy and pine, the owl and the bat, symbolizingNight. In the lower panels of the gate the four seasons are typified by the nakedbranch, the branch with bud and blossom, the full foliage of summer, and thefruit of autumn. All of this enrichment is executed in repousse, the designhaving first been drawn on the metal plate, which was then placed on a softmetal table, and the pattern beaten up from the back with hammers andpunches, and finished on the face with similar tools. 348 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. Another example of English metal-work and ornamental design is illus-trated on page 344. The subject here is a Fire-place, with all its furniture,manufactured and exhibited by Messrs. Steel & Garland, of London. As a. » £ -J rule, we in this country know too little of ornamental open fire-places. Thehuge chimney chasms in our old houses, intended for burning logs, made nopretence to anything but homely comfort; and the air-tight, sheet-iron American INDUS! RIAL ART. 349
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