Examples of household taste . Faience : French Court. with medallions containing figure-subjects. The design before us represents asleeping Venus, whom Cupid is awakening by music. The conceit is a prettyone, and furnishes the artist with a lovely theme for illustration. Other examples of French Faience, more or less elaborate, are seen inour illustration on this page. The covered dish shows much elaborateness ofdetail in the decoration, and the dessert-plate an equal delicacy and refinementof treatment. The handle to the beer-mug, on the left, in its close imitationof nature is in striking co
Examples of household taste . Faience : French Court. with medallions containing figure-subjects. The design before us represents asleeping Venus, whom Cupid is awakening by music. The conceit is a prettyone, and furnishes the artist with a lovely theme for illustration. Other examples of French Faience, more or less elaborate, are seen inour illustration on this page. The covered dish shows much elaborateness ofdetail in the decoration, and the dessert-plate an equal delicacy and refinementof treatment. The handle to the beer-mug, on the left, in its close imitationof nature is in striking contrast with the decoration in the body of the mug. 264 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, Cabinet-Sideboard: Cooper S* Holt, London. A capital design, simple yet effective, and thoroughly artistic, is seen on theunpretentious pitcher on the right of the group. The Cabinet Sideboard illlustrated on this page, one piece of a suit of INDUSTRIAL ART. 265 dining-room furniture exhibited by Messrs. Cooper & Holt, of London, is anoble piece of workmanship. Its height and breadth make it unsuitable forany other than a large room, but, suitably placed, its fine proportions and artistic
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