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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 382

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rawnthrough the compass of a ring. The design consists of the central pattern, agraceful arrangement of ferns and flowers and grasses in studied confusion, anda border of scrolls sweeping in full, broad curves around the pattern in thecentre, and at the lower angle of the shawl falling the one over… … Carpet: Spanish Court. From the almost inexhaustibly rich collection of ornamental metal-workexhibited by the Messrs. Elkington, of Birmingham, England, we select thepair of Silver Plaques illustrated on pages 364 and 365. Like all the otherexamples of ornamental work in the precious metals by this…

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

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