International studio (26.1905)

with an iHuminated address encased in a casket.
To the Glasgow School of Art was entrusted both
the engrossing of the address and the design of the
casket, and Mr. Newbery, the director of the
school, selected Miss Edith Walmesley for the one,
and entrusted the design of the casket to Mr. W.
Armstrong Davidson. The casket is illustrated
on page 157.
The three sloping legs are reminiscent of those
huge cranes that are common objects in the ship-
yards on the Clyde. The casket itself drops
between, and is supported by these legs, and the
whole is bolted down on to a foot of ebony. Sur-
mounting the casket proper is the figure of St.
Mungo, the patron saint of Glasgow. On one side
of the casket is a Limoges enamel plaque of the
cathedral, on another side the university is simi-
larly treated, white the third side receives the in-
scription, below which are the arms of Mr.
and Mrs. Scougal executed in Limoges enamel.
The material is silver, and the casket is as
unusual as it is beautiful.

The success attending the reception of
this casket was so great that on the re-
tirement of Sir Henry Craik, K.C.B., LL.D.,
from the office of permanent secretary to the
Scotch Education Department, it was decided
by the London staff at Dover House to mark
the event. The committee put themselves
into communication with Mr. Newbery to
ascertain if he were willing that the Glasgow
School of Art should undertake the commission.
The honour was gladly accepted, and Mr.
Newbery having decided that the work should
take the form of an old Scottish quaich, the
preparation of the design was entrusted to
Miss D. Carleton Smyth. The accompanying
photographs (page 156) give a very good idea
of the result.

The quaich is of silver, and follows in its
form the specimens of this old Scottish
drinking vessel existing in the national
museums. Around the lip is an entwining
border of laurel, symbolic of fame, running
round repousse bosses, and fixed in each
handle are two semicircular crystals. Im-
mediately inside the mouth of the quaich
is a motto passing round the bowl in Gaelic
characters, "LATHA CHI'S NACH FHAIC
NA H'UILE," which being freely trans-
lated means, " May it go well with you
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when present or absent," a generous, all-embracing
wish.

Associated with Miss D. Carleton Smyth in the
execution of the quaich were Mr. W. Armstrong
Davidson, silversmith and craftsman, Miss De
Courcy Lewthwaite Dewar, enamellist, and Mr.
Colin Kenmure, woodcarver, the whole being
carried out under the direction of Mr. F. H.
Newbery. J. J. F. K.
E W C A S T L E-0 N-T Y N E.—Newcastle
has at last awakened from its long and
peaceful sleep of indifference to all
matters relating to art, and finds itself
in possession of a Public Art Gallery. The art of
the town, so far as it is possible to promote art
work through exhibitions, has been for many years
past, dependent upon the exertions of the members


"ART HANDICRAFT"


BY J. E. MITCHELL