International studio (23.1904)

Studio-Talk



throughout. It can be praised for its beauty
of colour and for the clever use made in it
of contrasts of tone obtained by the inser-
tion of many pieces of nearly white glass
among the masses of deep colour. In this,
it is true, the custom of the earlier stained-
glass painters is
imitated, but
Mr. Strachan’s
adaptation of
the ancient
principle is
ingenious and
not without originality

BRONZE TOBACCO BOX

BY E. SPENCER

Illustrations are here
given of several designs
for metal work by Mr.
Edward Spencer, made
at the workshops of the
Artificers’ Guild. Mr.
Spencer recently held
an exhibition of his

monds and opals, also by Mr. Spencer. This design
divides itself naturally into two parts : the circlet and
the pendant. The former is intended to symbolise
Order, the latter the chaotic life uncontrolled by
the instinct for spiritual beauty. In the pendant
seven opals hang as fruits from the tree of knowledge,
which, by its relation to the Persian Haoma tree
and the Scandinavian Earth-ash Ygdrasil, shows
plainly as the Earth-symbol opposed to the Heaven-
symbol repeated in the circlet. Jormungund, the

DESIGN FOR
SANCTUARY LAMP
BY E. SPENCER

work at the Montague
Fordham Gallery, Mad-
dox Street, where also
was exhibited the
stained - glass panel of
a ship, here reproduced,
designed by Mr. H. F.
Waring and made at
the guild workshop.
Amongst our illustra-
tions is a necklace in dia-

I.AMP STAND

BY E. SPENCER

LAMP STAND DESIGNED BY E. SPENCER

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