DOI issue:
No. 80 (October 1903)
DOI issue:Werbung
DOI article:Wood, Esther: The national competition of Schools of Art, 1903
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26229#0384
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LACE COLLAR AND SCARF END
BY PHYLHS G. SACHS (REGENT STREET POLYTECHNIC)
by Laura Brocklebank (Blackheath). Simple and
unpretentious in form, and with entirely con-
ventional Cupid figures for ornament, this bowl
achieved a freshness and charm that were missed by
many more clever exhibits, and would neither look
bizarre nor antique, nor aggressively modern, in
any tastefully furnished room.
The best dinner-plates of
the year were by Francis Van
H. Allan Phillips (Burslem),
whose exhibit also included a
cup and saucer. The design
in all three was based on the
briar-rose and carried out
with admirable taste in gold
on white. Some plates by
Harry Allen, of the same
school—one printed under
glaze, the other printed in on
glaze colour — also deserve
praise for their workmanlike
design and execution.
The name of Fanny Bunn
(Birmingham) is already
favourably known in connec-
tion with enamelling; and
her fellow-student Gertrude ALTAR CLOTH
W. Hart proved to be a no less promising worker
in this exacting craft. Her little decorative panel
of a Madonna and Child was technically admir-
able and full of poetic feeling and sincerity of
treatment. The silver medal was taken by Fanny
Bunn for an enamelled panel and box-lid, exe-
cuted in her rich colouring and imaginative
draughtsmanship, on the subject of Christina
Rossetti's .Skaww—" a cup for love, a cup
for hope, a cup for memory."
The metal work was not so prolific as usual, and
showed no particular novelty of treatment or
design. Of the New Cross students, Josephine
Riverstone and Maggie Richardson were con-
spicuously good ; the latter showed a design
for an altar cross, the former maintained in an
enamelled jewel-casket her reputation for deli-
cate silverwork, and sent also a design for a
triptych and holy-water vessel. Another ex-
cellent little silver jewel-casket from the same
school was by Emilie G. Crow. Among other
ecclesiastical work should also be noticed a
chalice and paten by Harold Clive Catt
(Woolwich). The bronze bellows by John
W. Wilkinson were soberly but efficiently de-
corated, and both the design and the finished
object were marked by sympathetic invention
and taste.
Gesso has not become a widely popular medium,
and the work done in it was not of a very ambitious
or original character. There were, however, several
careful and meritorious decorations, such as the
piano-front, with coloured gesso, inlaid, by Kate M.
Eadie (Birmingham), where a fine sense of design
BY MINNIE BOLTON (BIRMINGHAM)
259
LACE COLLAR AND SCARF END
BY PHYLHS G. SACHS (REGENT STREET POLYTECHNIC)
by Laura Brocklebank (Blackheath). Simple and
unpretentious in form, and with entirely con-
ventional Cupid figures for ornament, this bowl
achieved a freshness and charm that were missed by
many more clever exhibits, and would neither look
bizarre nor antique, nor aggressively modern, in
any tastefully furnished room.
The best dinner-plates of
the year were by Francis Van
H. Allan Phillips (Burslem),
whose exhibit also included a
cup and saucer. The design
in all three was based on the
briar-rose and carried out
with admirable taste in gold
on white. Some plates by
Harry Allen, of the same
school—one printed under
glaze, the other printed in on
glaze colour — also deserve
praise for their workmanlike
design and execution.
The name of Fanny Bunn
(Birmingham) is already
favourably known in connec-
tion with enamelling; and
her fellow-student Gertrude ALTAR CLOTH
W. Hart proved to be a no less promising worker
in this exacting craft. Her little decorative panel
of a Madonna and Child was technically admir-
able and full of poetic feeling and sincerity of
treatment. The silver medal was taken by Fanny
Bunn for an enamelled panel and box-lid, exe-
cuted in her rich colouring and imaginative
draughtsmanship, on the subject of Christina
Rossetti's .Skaww—" a cup for love, a cup
for hope, a cup for memory."
The metal work was not so prolific as usual, and
showed no particular novelty of treatment or
design. Of the New Cross students, Josephine
Riverstone and Maggie Richardson were con-
spicuously good ; the latter showed a design
for an altar cross, the former maintained in an
enamelled jewel-casket her reputation for deli-
cate silverwork, and sent also a design for a
triptych and holy-water vessel. Another ex-
cellent little silver jewel-casket from the same
school was by Emilie G. Crow. Among other
ecclesiastical work should also be noticed a
chalice and paten by Harold Clive Catt
(Woolwich). The bronze bellows by John
W. Wilkinson were soberly but efficiently de-
corated, and both the design and the finished
object were marked by sympathetic invention
and taste.
Gesso has not become a widely popular medium,
and the work done in it was not of a very ambitious
or original character. There were, however, several
careful and meritorious decorations, such as the
piano-front, with coloured gesso, inlaid, by Kate M.
Eadie (Birmingham), where a fine sense of design
BY MINNIE BOLTON (BIRMINGHAM)
259