Studio: international art (13.1898)

"music and dancing" frieze in relief, gilt and coloured by r. anning bell

Prominently appears on entering the galleries
the plaster models of a frieze to be executed in oak
for a London house, the subject being The Children
in the Garden of Joy, designed by Mr. T. Stirling
Lee. The children have graceful Donatello-like
freedom of action, though modelled in an entirely
original manner characteristic of the artist; and
close by, a Design for Altar Panels, Emmanuel
Church, Liverpool, by C. Trevor Prescott, and a
rich Lacquered Leather Panel by Robert Hilton,
should be noticed. The Brobdignagian proportions
of Mr. Nelson Dawson's Fire Grate, Fire Lrons
and Dogs, attract immediate attention, and the
forged iron, with bronze enrichments applied and
inlaid, and the rough hammered metal surfaces,
will appeal forcibly to those who love to see the
signs of the tool in the handicraft.

Many attractive bits of colour arc furnished by

the numerous examples of the "Delia Robbia"
pottery distributed through the galleries, and often
arranged in complementary juxtaposition with other
exhibits. Several of the majolica panels from
figure subjects designed by the late Ford Madox-
Brown are set in glass mosaic, and suggest effective
colour treatment for interior arcaded panels. Other
more boldly modelled figure subjects, such as The
Sozuer and The Reaper, designed by Conrad
Dressier, are admirably suited to exterior architec-
tural decoration. Again, the panels Boy and Dol-
phin and Melody, designed by Miss Rope and
painted by Miss E. M. Wood (illustrated on p. 190),
a panel, Cupid's Head, designed by Harold S.
Rathbone, and another, Pandora, designed by
Miss C. A. Walker (illustrated on p. 190), arc all
little gems of design for setting as interior archi-
tectural embellishments.