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lines. From Eastwood and Cockfortess there was
also sound and unpretentious work, and from Miss
Heath’s class at Leigh, Kent, came one of the best
pieces of decorative carving in relief—a small oak
picture-frame, with a design from the beautiful and
unwearying “honesty” plant.

With the exception of the ever-delightful work of

the Keswick centre, where the higher branches of
the copper and silver smiths’ crafts are now well
established, the exhibits in decorative metal were
less than usually good. Praise is due, however, to

the quiet and conscientious work of Mr. D. J. Mac-
kenzie and his class of fisher-lads at Newlyn,
Cornwall, whose progress has all along been on the
true lines of design and craftsmanship. This class
has escaped the tendency to thirl and flashy
ornament, and has consistently treated metal as
having body as well as face. Its reputation for
fenders was kept up by a
good and characteristic
example of their style, in
wrought brass, with a fish-
and-lobster design on the
curb. There were also
some excellent jugs in
repousse brass and copper,
done by two class mem-
bers, Wright and Nicholls,
a handsome copper fire-
screen by W. Pezzack, and
a scene executed by Wright
with enamels by Reginald
Dick, all from Mr. Mac-
kenzie’s designs.

The Keswick group of
metal workers had the advantage of Miss Isabel
McBean’s designs for table-ware, as well as those
of their own well tried and resourceful artists,
Harold Stabler and Herbert J. Maryon, and they

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