Studio: international art (20.1900)

Sporting Cups.

vulgar, over-polished silverwork in the shops; and silver itself again, so that it seems ra rare and
by this means he will turn to the profit of his craft beautiful new metal and for this reason too much
the fact that artistic beauty is, in this case, a attention cannot be drawn to the all-important part
matter of surface. What the enemies of silver played by texture, by surface, in the treatment of
detest most of all is the self-assertive smoothness, this persecuted metal.

so devoid of tone, so pretentiously mechanical and But this is not all. If silver is to be dissociated
meretricious, with which " the trade " fascinates from all memories of bad work, and if we wish to-
the general public, degrading silver in art value to see it freed from its present position as a drudge
the level of the cheapest electro-plated ware. To of the public-enslaved manufacturers, then this
avoid this result of industrial methods is to make all-important question as to surface must be

enforced upon the popular
mind, and craftsmen must

>■ think of it always in con-

nection with other things-

________ ,.^._.-_.,,._L-^ that run strongly counter

\ I alflflpj to the industrial methods

Hi 'IflBHn and finish. Thus silver,

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for example, must be
thought of in relation to
colour. There are many
felicitous ways in which it.
may be employed with
other substances, all beauti-
ful and many-hued. This-
//•' is what Mr. Reynolds-

Stephens illustrates, and.
illustrates with much suc-
cess, in his modelled sketch
liK/' design for a large yachting

trophy, the description of
which will be found in the

f'/fi*<H\ nrst aYt^e- He has re-

Wj/ fj membered that in art fa-

f /f miliar old things become

/; }l new in new combinations

and it is to be hoped that
his example will be widely
followed.

Further, is there any
reason why silver should
always have a place in
the making of presentation
cups and trophies ? We

Jthink not. There are other
serviceable materials, and
i it certainly cannot be said

~—^ that the incessant use of

...>^EL- silver is creditable to any

man's artistic enterprise

^.rrm virjvirv ful suggestions, and during

design for a silver sporting cup by david veazey lul ^oo" ' &

"studio' prize comp. a xlv the course of these papers