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No. 42 (September, 1896)
DOI Artikel:White, Gleeson: The national competition, South Kensington 1896
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17297#0244
The National Competition: South Kensington
the one year's harvest to study the picked woik of Of these perhaps the best is (700) by Clarence
former years, there is no sense of improvement. On Mawson (Shipley), who has shown good work
the contrary, the level of 1896 is far more interest- before; the design is Persian in colour and in
ing. Of course there are some items therein not feeling ; the actual tiles are shown in No. 524, a
beaten on their own ground this year. The pen- not very satisfactory effort by Henry Copson
drawings by Spence, the stained glass by Bernard (Hanley); another design for the same purpose
Sleigh, the designs by Fred Mason and H. A. (No. 577) with yellow roosters and ears of ripe
Payne, the studies by R. A. Bell, and many others, Indian corn, by Illingworth Varley (Macclesfield)
keep their place. But the average of 1896 seems is novel and clever; peacocks and pomegranntes,
higher than that of the previous years, and to another design (525), by Florence Robinson
show vitality which is at once a surprise to (Hanley), is not devoid of merit. A design for a
discover and a pleasure to acknowledge. Cloisonne Plate (1000) by H. C. Oakley, suggests
The " hanging" of the galleries is admirably good colour for the enamels and is a very in-
managed. There are 1037 items catalogued, but as geniously arranged pattern ; designs for bowls (42)
no numerical order is observed on the walls, it is by Cecil Jones (Coalbrookdale) have gained a
impossible to say if they are all shown. The first silver medal deservedly ; a scheme for a mosaic
group which confronts you on entering is "Tiles." floor by David G. Miller, Glasgow (203) is shown in
complete drawing and in a
full sized portion, intended
for the Sun Fire Office, the
symbolism is cleverly man-
aged ; another mosaic design
(755) by Francis Cockburn
(Wakefield) has strength and
fitness ; but as the examiners
point out, the designs in this
class as a whole are not pleas-
ing in colour. Olive Jupp's
(Chichester) rose-water dish
in sgraffito (162) is shown in
the drawing and also in the
glazed ware carried out suc-
cessfully ; this is also the case
in another piece of sgraffito
(195) a vase by Ada Hazell
(Farnham). The tendency of
late to show many objects not
only in working drawings but
also actually carried out,
seems a most valuable inno-
vation.
The stencil pattern (612)
by Helen M. Cowan (New-
castle) is clever ; others (457,
458) by W. F. Blagg (Chelsea)
are interesting, but the colour
of the frieze with " bunnies "
is not happy ; and the scheme
for a wall decoration (251) by
John E. Birks (Manchester)
although poor in the details,
both of the lower panels and
the shields of the frieze, is
book-plate by h. xelson very pleasant in general effect;
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the one year's harvest to study the picked woik of Of these perhaps the best is (700) by Clarence
former years, there is no sense of improvement. On Mawson (Shipley), who has shown good work
the contrary, the level of 1896 is far more interest- before; the design is Persian in colour and in
ing. Of course there are some items therein not feeling ; the actual tiles are shown in No. 524, a
beaten on their own ground this year. The pen- not very satisfactory effort by Henry Copson
drawings by Spence, the stained glass by Bernard (Hanley); another design for the same purpose
Sleigh, the designs by Fred Mason and H. A. (No. 577) with yellow roosters and ears of ripe
Payne, the studies by R. A. Bell, and many others, Indian corn, by Illingworth Varley (Macclesfield)
keep their place. But the average of 1896 seems is novel and clever; peacocks and pomegranntes,
higher than that of the previous years, and to another design (525), by Florence Robinson
show vitality which is at once a surprise to (Hanley), is not devoid of merit. A design for a
discover and a pleasure to acknowledge. Cloisonne Plate (1000) by H. C. Oakley, suggests
The " hanging" of the galleries is admirably good colour for the enamels and is a very in-
managed. There are 1037 items catalogued, but as geniously arranged pattern ; designs for bowls (42)
no numerical order is observed on the walls, it is by Cecil Jones (Coalbrookdale) have gained a
impossible to say if they are all shown. The first silver medal deservedly ; a scheme for a mosaic
group which confronts you on entering is "Tiles." floor by David G. Miller, Glasgow (203) is shown in
complete drawing and in a
full sized portion, intended
for the Sun Fire Office, the
symbolism is cleverly man-
aged ; another mosaic design
(755) by Francis Cockburn
(Wakefield) has strength and
fitness ; but as the examiners
point out, the designs in this
class as a whole are not pleas-
ing in colour. Olive Jupp's
(Chichester) rose-water dish
in sgraffito (162) is shown in
the drawing and also in the
glazed ware carried out suc-
cessfully ; this is also the case
in another piece of sgraffito
(195) a vase by Ada Hazell
(Farnham). The tendency of
late to show many objects not
only in working drawings but
also actually carried out,
seems a most valuable inno-
vation.
The stencil pattern (612)
by Helen M. Cowan (New-
castle) is clever ; others (457,
458) by W. F. Blagg (Chelsea)
are interesting, but the colour
of the frieze with " bunnies "
is not happy ; and the scheme
for a wall decoration (251) by
John E. Birks (Manchester)
although poor in the details,
both of the lower panels and
the shields of the frieze, is
book-plate by h. xelson very pleasant in general effect;
226