Studio: international art (18.1900)

Arts and Crafts

HANGING ELECTROLIER DESIGNED BY H. POWELL

(Messrs. Powell &• Sons, Manufacturers)

vast public which does not understand their finest
work, and which admires inappropriate engravings
on table glass, such as the fern patterns, so familiar
to us all since our nursery days. The form of the
Whitefriars glass vessels as well as the ornament
upon them is designed generally by Mr. Harry Powell,
while Mr. James Powell is responsible for most of
the stained glass and tile-work of the firm. One of
their most recent undertakings is the panelling for
the alabaster-framed reredos erected in Harrow
School Chapel. The work consists mainly of tile
slabs shaped according to the requirements of the
picture and pieced together in the manner of of us

sectile. Parts are executed in mosaic of small
tesserce, while the orb in the hand of the throned
Christ, occupying the middle of the composi-
tion, is one single mother-of-pearl shell. The
lower portions of the wings are formed of square
tiles, these latter being fashioned, not of china nor
earthenware, but entirely of glass. The mode of
their manufacture is an interesting one. A stencil-
plate being provided, and the pattern cut in it as
required, is laid upon a carrier, a slab of glass so
prepared that the surface of the tile (which is
made front downward) will not adhere. Pow-
dered glass of the colour selected is next dusted

WROUGHT IRON LANTERN DESIGNED BY J. POWELL

(Messrs. Powell Sons, Manufacturers)

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