DOI issue:
No. 88 (July, 1900)
DOI article:Wood, Esther: The Home Arts and Industries Exhibition at the Albert Hall
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19785#0105
Home Arts and Industries
HAMMERED BRASS AND COPPER VESSELS DESIGNED BY MRS. WATERHOUSE
CARRIED OUT BY PUPILS OF THE YATTENDON CLASS
cordial praise. Thomas
very conscientious and in-
telligent work. The South-
wold cabinet-makers made
, . , , . f COPPER CASKET BY H. MARYON, THOS. SPARK, AND T. CLARK
their usual good display of „ . ,
° r J Keswick Class
carved oak bureaux, settles
and chests, but there was no
apparent novelty in design. One excellent carved town must by no means be overlooked. The
panel, of Renaissance style, came from Altrincham, beautiful little group of silver table-ware from
Cheshire. Much painstaking work was shown by Keswick was a welcome departure towards finer
Mary Daniells in the ornamentation of a corner craftsmanship, though the hammered copper bowls
cupboard (Berkeley, Gloucestershire), but the and ewers showed no loss of the breadth of
design seemed to lack coherence, and power was handling demanded by Harold Stabler's bold
frittered away in detail. The exhibits from Miss design. This excellent artist is again responsible
Heath's class at Leigh, Tonbridge, consisted largely for some of the most satisfying decorative inven-
of the carved picture-frames for which it is tions which the class has carried out with sincere
already known. A broad and simple "peacock's- enthusiasm and rare technical ability. Two
feather" design on a circular mirror frame was designs by Herbert Maryon were singularly good
among the most effective; it was carved by Albert —a knocker, executed by Jeremiah Richardson,
Duval on a frame made by J. Clark. A well- and a copper casket made by Thomas Spark and
finished box for photographs was ornamented by ornamented by Thomas Clark and the designer.
Frederick Card with a design adapted by the The lock, enamelled in pearly blue and white,
teacher from some of Mr. Voysey's birds. gave a dainty touch of colour to a form almost
Wrought and hammered metal is always one of bare of ornament, but beautiful in its proportions
the most prolific and popular branches of the and lines. There were also some half-length
Association's work. The high place taken by screens, framed in wood, with hammered copper
Newlyn this year has been already referred to; panels designed by Harold Stabler and carried out
but the admirable work of Keswick and Fivemile- by John Gardiner and Thomas Clark. In the hands
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HAMMERED BRASS AND COPPER VESSELS DESIGNED BY MRS. WATERHOUSE
CARRIED OUT BY PUPILS OF THE YATTENDON CLASS
cordial praise. Thomas
very conscientious and in-
telligent work. The South-
wold cabinet-makers made
, . , , . f COPPER CASKET BY H. MARYON, THOS. SPARK, AND T. CLARK
their usual good display of „ . ,
° r J Keswick Class
carved oak bureaux, settles
and chests, but there was no
apparent novelty in design. One excellent carved town must by no means be overlooked. The
panel, of Renaissance style, came from Altrincham, beautiful little group of silver table-ware from
Cheshire. Much painstaking work was shown by Keswick was a welcome departure towards finer
Mary Daniells in the ornamentation of a corner craftsmanship, though the hammered copper bowls
cupboard (Berkeley, Gloucestershire), but the and ewers showed no loss of the breadth of
design seemed to lack coherence, and power was handling demanded by Harold Stabler's bold
frittered away in detail. The exhibits from Miss design. This excellent artist is again responsible
Heath's class at Leigh, Tonbridge, consisted largely for some of the most satisfying decorative inven-
of the carved picture-frames for which it is tions which the class has carried out with sincere
already known. A broad and simple "peacock's- enthusiasm and rare technical ability. Two
feather" design on a circular mirror frame was designs by Herbert Maryon were singularly good
among the most effective; it was carved by Albert —a knocker, executed by Jeremiah Richardson,
Duval on a frame made by J. Clark. A well- and a copper casket made by Thomas Spark and
finished box for photographs was ornamented by ornamented by Thomas Clark and the designer.
Frederick Card with a design adapted by the The lock, enamelled in pearly blue and white,
teacher from some of Mr. Voysey's birds. gave a dainty touch of colour to a form almost
Wrought and hammered metal is always one of bare of ornament, but beautiful in its proportions
the most prolific and popular branches of the and lines. There were also some half-length
Association's work. The high place taken by screens, framed in wood, with hammered copper
Newlyn this year has been already referred to; panels designed by Harold Stabler and carried out
but the admirable work of Keswick and Fivemile- by John Gardiner and Thomas Clark. In the hands
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