DOI Heft:
No. 82 (January, 1900)
DOI Artikel:British decorative art in 1899, and the Arts And Crafts Exhibition, [4]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19783#0293
Arts and Crafts
and water under the image of the
sun and the sea. The outline of
the shield is a variation of the
graceful scolloped form which was a
favourite one in cinque cento orna-
ment, a form which is itself founded
upon the chamfron or plate of
defensive armour worn upon the
forepart of the head of a war-horse.
Beginning as a silver-worker at
Sheffield, for the Mappin Art Gallery,
in which place she executed a large
silver repousse punch-bowl, Miss
Eleanor Mercer subsequentlystudied
at South Kensington. The result
is embodied in the beautiful group
of two-winged figures embracing,
which form the main incident in the
panel shown on p. 269. The original
was first modelled in wax and then
reproduced in electrotype, which
again was oxidised to give it a
pleasant tone. Another work of the
same artist is a bronze-painted
plaster panel exhibited at the New
Gallery. The form of it is upright,
with a medallion in the centre, con-
taining a mother and child well
adapted to the circular outline, the
remaining spaces above and below
being occupied by conventionalised
foliage of Renaissance character.
Miss Mercer has - further been
commissioned to supply silver pre-
sentation cups for awards in the
Cowes regatta, one each for five
successive years. Two out of the
number have been already provided
CARVED WOOD COLUMNS . BY W. AUMONIER fae artist
Mr. Gilbert Bayes is a sculptor
and also of decorative fitness. With the excep- who passed from Finsbury to more advanced art-
tion of the mouldings on the elbow-rests, the training at the Royal Academy schools. His
only ornamentation is the carving on the back, modelled and bronzed panel, with a spirited repre-
which, in order not to present an uncomfortable sentation of sea-horses, exhibited at the New Gallery,
surface for any one to lean against, is nearly level was actually meant to be executed in white plaster for
on the front, the effect of relief and variety being the decoration of a chimney-piece in a white room,
obtained by sinking the background into a deep The modelling of a sea-horse on a small scale sug-
hollow at the bottom of the panel and shelving it gested so close a resemblance to a knight in chess,
upwards until it becomes shallow when it reaches with the horse's arching neck, that Mr. Bayes set
the top. The seat being designed as a wedding himself to design an entirely new set of chessmen,
gift, shows the oak and rose tree growing out of carrying out the same maritime idea in every one
separate roots and uniting in the middle. The of the pieces. Thus the king and queen are
coat-of-arms, which is painted as well as carved, is severally a triton and a mermaid ; the fish with
an imaginary one, and depicts the elements of fire gaping mouth is a capital substitute for the mitred
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and water under the image of the
sun and the sea. The outline of
the shield is a variation of the
graceful scolloped form which was a
favourite one in cinque cento orna-
ment, a form which is itself founded
upon the chamfron or plate of
defensive armour worn upon the
forepart of the head of a war-horse.
Beginning as a silver-worker at
Sheffield, for the Mappin Art Gallery,
in which place she executed a large
silver repousse punch-bowl, Miss
Eleanor Mercer subsequentlystudied
at South Kensington. The result
is embodied in the beautiful group
of two-winged figures embracing,
which form the main incident in the
panel shown on p. 269. The original
was first modelled in wax and then
reproduced in electrotype, which
again was oxidised to give it a
pleasant tone. Another work of the
same artist is a bronze-painted
plaster panel exhibited at the New
Gallery. The form of it is upright,
with a medallion in the centre, con-
taining a mother and child well
adapted to the circular outline, the
remaining spaces above and below
being occupied by conventionalised
foliage of Renaissance character.
Miss Mercer has - further been
commissioned to supply silver pre-
sentation cups for awards in the
Cowes regatta, one each for five
successive years. Two out of the
number have been already provided
CARVED WOOD COLUMNS . BY W. AUMONIER fae artist
Mr. Gilbert Bayes is a sculptor
and also of decorative fitness. With the excep- who passed from Finsbury to more advanced art-
tion of the mouldings on the elbow-rests, the training at the Royal Academy schools. His
only ornamentation is the carving on the back, modelled and bronzed panel, with a spirited repre-
which, in order not to present an uncomfortable sentation of sea-horses, exhibited at the New Gallery,
surface for any one to lean against, is nearly level was actually meant to be executed in white plaster for
on the front, the effect of relief and variety being the decoration of a chimney-piece in a white room,
obtained by sinking the background into a deep The modelling of a sea-horse on a small scale sug-
hollow at the bottom of the panel and shelving it gested so close a resemblance to a knight in chess,
upwards until it becomes shallow when it reaches with the horse's arching neck, that Mr. Bayes set
the top. The seat being designed as a wedding himself to design an entirely new set of chessmen,
gift, shows the oak and rose tree growing out of carrying out the same maritime idea in every one
separate roots and uniting in the middle. The of the pieces. Thus the king and queen are
coat-of-arms, which is painted as well as carved, is severally a triton and a mermaid ; the fish with
an imaginary one, and depicts the elements of fire gaping mouth is a capital substitute for the mitred
265