Smith, Walter, 1836-1886, Smith, Walter, 1836-1886. Industrial art of the International Exhibition · New York, R. Worthington · leaf 489
that gentleman made aninteresting mention of a similar specimen to the one engraved above. A most striking illustration, he said, of the usefulness of museumspecimens is found in the beautiful work of Brocard, of Paris. An Arabian 474 THE INTERNATIONAL EXH1BIT10N, 1876, lamp was added a few years… … Sevres Vase: French Court. believe, from a mosque in Cairo, and was thirteenth century work; a specimenof a manufacture altogether new to Europe, and it was undoubtedly artistic.No sooner was it exposed in the museum than it attracted the attention andelicited the admiration of M. Brocard. But this…
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) · Decorative arts
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