DOI issue:
No. 186 (September 1912)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20778#0314
Studio- Talk
"EMBROIDERED COLLAR
BY ANN MACBETH
bowls, plaques, trays, and
large Florentine pendant
candelabra, etc., all providing
examples of good design and
skilled craftsmanship.
Again, the beaten copper
and brasswork, the silver
ware, bronzes and caskets,
embroideries, and embossed
leather from other piivate
collectors—Mrs. R. Bushel,
Mr. Edmund Rathbone, Mr.
R. R. Meade-King, Mrs. G.
Holt, Mrs. W. Rathbone,
the late Mr. Charles Gate-
house, and others — illus-
trated the older traditions
leading up to and influencing
our handicrafts to-day. And
in Sir Rubert Boyce’s rich
collection of fourteenth and
sixteenth - century Saracenic
LIVERPOOL.—The Crafts Exhibition re-
cently held at the Old Bluecoat School,
Liverpool, consisting of works carefully
selected by the committee, or invited
from artists of recognised merit, was of unusual
interest, and served to illustrate modern work
as having made marked progress ; at the
same time very instructive comparison could be
made between the craftsmanship of our own day
and that of all periods from many other countries,
-supplied by selected examples very generously lent
by owners of the chief art collections in the neigh-
bourhood, who in this way contributed largely to
•the educational purpose of the exhibition.
Of the loan collection, therefore, some brief
■mention might first be made. Amongst the more
noticeable pieces of old furniture were several fine
cabinets from the Earl of Lathom’s Ormskirk resi-
•dence. Mr. Holbrook Gaskel’s loaned exhibits
included a large circular Dutch table, richly inlaid
with ivory and coloured woods, a seventeenth-
•century English carved oak arm-chair, an old
Dutch cabinet inlaid with ebony and ivory, and a
pair of silver and gilt statuettes of knights in finely
wrought and inlaid armour. Sir John Gray Hill con-
tributed Damascus cabinets and chairs inlaid with
mother-of-pearl, Oriental lamps, incense-burners,
CANDLE SCONCE IN ( XII ISED SILVER
WITH TRANSLUCENT ENAMEL MEDALLION
BY ALEXAr DER FISHER
291
"EMBROIDERED COLLAR
BY ANN MACBETH
bowls, plaques, trays, and
large Florentine pendant
candelabra, etc., all providing
examples of good design and
skilled craftsmanship.
Again, the beaten copper
and brasswork, the silver
ware, bronzes and caskets,
embroideries, and embossed
leather from other piivate
collectors—Mrs. R. Bushel,
Mr. Edmund Rathbone, Mr.
R. R. Meade-King, Mrs. G.
Holt, Mrs. W. Rathbone,
the late Mr. Charles Gate-
house, and others — illus-
trated the older traditions
leading up to and influencing
our handicrafts to-day. And
in Sir Rubert Boyce’s rich
collection of fourteenth and
sixteenth - century Saracenic
LIVERPOOL.—The Crafts Exhibition re-
cently held at the Old Bluecoat School,
Liverpool, consisting of works carefully
selected by the committee, or invited
from artists of recognised merit, was of unusual
interest, and served to illustrate modern work
as having made marked progress ; at the
same time very instructive comparison could be
made between the craftsmanship of our own day
and that of all periods from many other countries,
-supplied by selected examples very generously lent
by owners of the chief art collections in the neigh-
bourhood, who in this way contributed largely to
•the educational purpose of the exhibition.
Of the loan collection, therefore, some brief
■mention might first be made. Amongst the more
noticeable pieces of old furniture were several fine
cabinets from the Earl of Lathom’s Ormskirk resi-
•dence. Mr. Holbrook Gaskel’s loaned exhibits
included a large circular Dutch table, richly inlaid
with ivory and coloured woods, a seventeenth-
•century English carved oak arm-chair, an old
Dutch cabinet inlaid with ebony and ivory, and a
pair of silver and gilt statuettes of knights in finely
wrought and inlaid armour. Sir John Gray Hill con-
tributed Damascus cabinets and chairs inlaid with
mother-of-pearl, Oriental lamps, incense-burners,
CANDLE SCONCE IN ( XII ISED SILVER
WITH TRANSLUCENT ENAMEL MEDALLION
BY ALEXAr DER FISHER
291