Examples of household taste . Dessert Plates: Brownfield &> Sons. as a statue in marble or bronze. So, too, with the Chandelier: the eleganceand lightness of its proportions, the richness of its effect when all its burnersare lit, is most noteworthy. It is with such every-day surroundings as these thatwe make our homes really and truly beautiful. Perhaps one of the most astonishing examples of the adaptation of naturalmaterials to ornamental uses is given in the art of the potter. The fabricationof rude vessels from the clay of the earth is almost as old as the hills fromwhich the clay was
Examples of household taste . Dessert Plates: Brownfield &> Sons. as a statue in marble or bronze. So, too, with the Chandelier: the eleganceand lightness of its proportions, the richness of its effect when all its burnersare lit, is most noteworthy. It is with such every-day surroundings as these thatwe make our homes really and truly beautiful. Perhaps one of the most astonishing examples of the adaptation of naturalmaterials to ornamental uses is given in the art of the potter. The fabricationof rude vessels from the clay of the earth is almost as old as the hills fromwhich the clay was dug. No traces of peoples or forgotten races have beendiscovered without the discoverer finding fragments of their pottery. Fromthese rude beginnings grew up, little by little, an art which is one of the mostuniversal in its use and employments of artizans of the industries of the world. INDUSTRIAL ART 45 For uncounted centuries China—that treasure-room in which we are constantlydiscovering methods and appliances which
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