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Examples of household taste (1875)

Smith, Walter, 1836-1886, Smith, Walter, 1836-1886. Industrial art of the International Exhibition · New York, R. Worthington · leaf 351

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, as, for instance, in the p&te-sur-pate, examples of whichwe have engraved in these pages. Wedgwood discovered new processes anda new art, an art as distinctively national and as important in its way as wasthe discovery of Lucca della Robbia. His beautiful and ingenious imitation of the… … In Italy there is amovement making toreturn to the old waysof decorating pottery,and more especiallyto use the same ma-terials and pigmentsas formerly. Thelabor of chemists andstudents of ceramicsis being devoted to

Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) · Decorative arts

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