DOI Heft:
No. 81 (December, 1899)
DOI Artikel:British decorative art in 1899, and the Arts And Crafts Exhibition, [3]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19783#0216
Art's and Crafts
in ornament. She draws with great rapidity and
spirit, seldom subjecting her work to revision. The
glove-box gilt by Miss Baker after Cennini's method,
and painted in tempera by Mrs. Gaskin with
boys and girls amidst a flowing floral -scroll, is a
case in point. The same designer has produced
a set of book illustrations, drawn in pencil and
tinted, for colour-printing. They represent children
playing all sorts of nursery games.
But perhaps the chief interest attaches to the
jewellery, the joint work of Mr. and Mrs. Gaskin.
Their motive for undertaking this branch of art
was that, living as they do in Birmingham, a
principal centre of the manufacture of jewellery,
they have always before them the painful evi-
dences of the need of reform in that industry.
While the technique of the commercial article is
flawless, it is lamentably deficient in artistic quality
JEWELLERY
BY A. J. AND MRS. GASKIN
193
in ornament. She draws with great rapidity and
spirit, seldom subjecting her work to revision. The
glove-box gilt by Miss Baker after Cennini's method,
and painted in tempera by Mrs. Gaskin with
boys and girls amidst a flowing floral -scroll, is a
case in point. The same designer has produced
a set of book illustrations, drawn in pencil and
tinted, for colour-printing. They represent children
playing all sorts of nursery games.
But perhaps the chief interest attaches to the
jewellery, the joint work of Mr. and Mrs. Gaskin.
Their motive for undertaking this branch of art
was that, living as they do in Birmingham, a
principal centre of the manufacture of jewellery,
they have always before them the painful evi-
dences of the need of reform in that industry.
While the technique of the commercial article is
flawless, it is lamentably deficient in artistic quality
JEWELLERY
BY A. J. AND MRS. GASKIN
193