Studio: international art (6.1896)

National Competition, South Kensington

forms were cleverly treated. A small repeat pattern order. The lace designs were, with two exceptions,
secured by three stencil plates, forming a diaper orthodox but not peculiarly interesting, nor did
and border, by Walter J. Bond, of Birmingham, was the effort to follow a more modern style in a fan
commendable for its extreme simplicity. by Madeleine Le Mesurier (Cork), or one with

Although designs for textiles made rather a poor bird-forms by Georgina Jack, of Dublin, quite
show, yet space convince you of

must be found ____ their suitability

to praise a KlflK^ to the material,

scheme for a PF^L, V,^^-^§^lli>> r^T~^T~^~^~ ~ stained-

damask table- La ' y? ■■ ■Jf\^-^<wBr glass designs were

cloth by Emily laV '^^^^^-r^ /; VV^y \^_^k^) n0t eP0Cn"ma^"

well Road; the ^tp i^Bwhte*. Alexander Wal-

border of ships J ^ ^Km\^!rmm ^ur' °^ Glasgow,

and dolphins was / / J Mr was spoilt by the

good, the min- / |^ 1 ^a introduction of

now-like forms I k-^*%f~~wfy ^J^^\ stiff bands of

of the filling were ( ( A;/':k Jf '/'/// • \ lettering, cutting

ingenious if as \/ -llw /''/// II 'K across all the

restless as their \ • J fl | \ lights in the

prototypes. Mary X^Jff 'J 1 l~^S'\ N, traceried head of

Newill's embroi- I • \ / j\ .j? the late Perpen-

deries for a rere- j' Va / / \ / i'4^r"^V—- dicular window,

dos, with two ' / ' j I *^/ \ \rrr^"ry ') m a wa^ distress-

side panels in / Jj . jjrafeli tC> a ^evotee

black and white, / / // Iman wPw^ of mediaeval art.

made a charming jQPJK // Ethel Cook, of

group ; and a de- \ ^ Birmingham, and

sign for a panel, \ / Arthur E. Orr

St. Christopher, \ \ \l pr f* (S.K.), had ex-

by Agnes Man- \ / >A JEgk eel lent schemes,

ley (also of Bir- \ / Afl \^^^ Wm^. ^ circular panel

mingham), was IK I 1 - * hung near, by

admirable in // \1 I \ ^%i> Bernard Sleigh,

every way. A //• \ \ of Birmingham,

really fine panel / / \ j although not ap-

of embroidery J1/ parentlyintended

by Hannah San- If ^or stamea- S^ass'

deman, of New- \a~~—' )\ i < LI was a curiously

castle - on^- Tyne, ^^^^^^^^^^^ successful

alone, was admir- and the whole

ably planned and design for a poster by leon v. solon na(j a distinctly

cleverly worked. poetical quality.

Above it hung a capital scheme for a frieze worked The designs for pottery were not strikingly good,

in embroidery, already illustrated in The Studio, A coloured drawing for a tile panel by George

on p. xxvii. vol. 4. This was attributed to Florence Rushton, suggested a famous Japanese painting of

A. Francis, but probably it was a printer's error, and the Hundred Carp, but not unduly so ; it was a very

the entry had changed places with that of Mary capital piece of applied decoration, although not

Ivens, also of Birmingham, which occurred next in peculiarly tile-like. A repeating design for tiles, by
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