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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 371

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covered. The enamelsinks into the incisions made by the graver, and the whole surface is thenrubbed down smooth and polished. The attempt to follow the lines of the pattern through alltheir labyrinthinewindings is bewil-dering, yet it willbe seen that thedesign consists ofunits of… … Krug yug: Count Thun, Austrian Court. ive. In all orientalsurface decorationwhere a regular re-distribution of pat-terns is affected, wewill find a symmet-rical arrangementin which a figure,often extremelysimple in itself, isso agreeably inter-woven with geo-metric forms as togive a rich and…

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

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