Studio: international art (15.1899)

Studio- Talk

men with distinctfartistic per-
ception are there, and Mr.
,„ • „.., aSp*-, George Frampton must

- \ j *^f/^N- needs feel that the time and

interest''he has expended so
freely are already showing
fruit. The colour prints,
which would be ineffective
in small monochrome repro-
ductions, were so admirable
that it would be unfair in a
limited space to name a few
—even of the best. The

buckle in champleve enamel on silver

by e. kirkpatrick

The first exhibition of works by students
of the Central School of Arts and Crafts,
Regent Street, fully justified the high expec-
tation raised by the personnel of its staff. The
bookbindings of Mr. Douglas CockerelFs
class, the lead-work by Mr. Lethaby's, the
colour-prints by Mr. Morley Fletcher's, the
stained glass by Mr. C. W. Whall's, and
the enamels by Mr. Fisher's, to take but
a few, were all not merely good when con-
sidered as the work of pupils in training, but
were capable of holding their own at most ex-
hibitions. Nor in saying so much need it be
inferred that budding Cellinis or Donatellos
abound in Regent Street; but trained crafts-

enamel on copper
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painted enamel by e. kirkpatrick

lead-work suggested the
past glories of the art; the
bindings, of which several
are illustrated here, were
workmanlike as well as
artistic; the enamels were
things to covet, and one only
regrets that in the absence
of colour the illustrations
convey scarce a trace of
their charm. A beautiful
jug, in solid ivory with
metal mounts, also loses
much in black-and-white ;
the beauty of its form arid
the delicacy of its mount-
ing are gone. So a really
beautiful metal box, here
by w. t. flowers reproduced, fails to suggest