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INLAID CHEST

classes for wood-carving and
inlay, held by the Hon.

Mabel de Grey at Pimlico
and Stepney, the Hon.

Gertrude Douglas Pennant
at Ratcliffe, the Hon. Mrs.

Carpenter at Bolton - on -
Swale, and the Hon. Mrs.

Hodgson at Escrick, Yorks.

Here the designs fully
maintained their excellent
standard of previous years.

These ladies have, in fact,
founded quite a school
of modem wood-inlaying,
which for sincerity and
charm of touch, combined

with fertile invention, need not fear comparison
with the best professional work of the day. At
Escrick the pupils are
encouraged, as they
should be, to make up
their own work, and
where this is impractic-
able, the designers, con-
structors, and decorators
achieve together an
admirable unity of effect.

Mrs. Hodgson’s design
of ships was inlaid by
Miss Elsie Hodgson in
an oak chest constructed
by William Jackson,

who also showed some good carving on a narrow
corner-table of very pleasant shape. A similar

DESIGNED BY THE HON. MRS. HODGSON
EXECUTED BY ERNEST EASTERBY (ESCRICK)

chest,

under

made and inlaid
the direction of

‘ BRIDGE BOX

BY MARY ELLICE AND
DAVID LORD (STEPNEY)

INLAID BY H.
(RATCLIFF)

by Ernest Easterby,
the same designer,
was one of the best
exhibits of the year.
Another good chest was
in’aid by the class at
Ratcliff, whose work also
included a book-case by
H. Collier, with a door
inlaid with the figure ot
a nun, a notice-frame
for St. James’s Church,
inlaid with coloured
woods and mother-o’-
pearl, executed by Arthur
Simmons from Mr.
Archibald Hogg’s design, and some very pretty and
original letter-boxes, designed by Miss Barker and
carried out by David Lord and Herbert Shaw.
Another quaint and striking little design was for a
“Bridge” box, by Miss Mary Ellice; this, too, wasvery
effectively inlaid by David Lord. Three cabinets
were sent by Mrs. Carpenter’s class at Bolton-on-
Swale, and the teacher’s piquant little study of a
row of schoolchildren, for the decoration of a
stationery case, was carried out with excellent
feeling and technical proficiency. The Stepney
pupils distinguished themselves in two light and
dainty bookcases—a “Shakespeare” and a “Walter
Scott ”—with symbolic and decorative designs
appropriate to the two poets on the door of the
cupboard in each, arranged by Charlotte Campion,
and carried out by H. Shaw and William Beer.

Of plain wood-carving, the large oak bedstead
sent by the East Grinstead class was the most
ambitious Example, promising well for the pupils’
development if this is kept on simple and natural

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