DOI issue:
Nr. 222 (September 1911)
DOI article:Whitley, William Thomas: The National Competition of Schools of Art, 1911
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20973#0317
The National Competition of Schools of Art, ign
Islington, showed exceptional ability, in
workmanship if not in design. Cuthbert-
son is nineteen and Joseph only fourteen
years old. Some gold earrings and a ring,
by Alice M. Camwell of Birmingham
(Margaret Street), are also deserving of
high praise.
The enamels were not so good as those
shown a few years ago, when admirable
work was being done by a small group of
clever Dublin students. A gold medal
has deservedly been awarded to Jean
Campbell of the Camden School of Art
for a pot-pourri jar of pierced silver and
enamel that is charming both in shape
repousse mirror-frame by Walter ray (macclesfiei.d) "nd colour; Another attractive piece of
work of a simpler kind was the silver and
enamel case for a glass scent-bottle, by
only of holiday-making and ot getting away from Mary J. Binnkigton of Bradford School of Art;
London. and Harry Isaac, of the Camden School of Art,
The exhibition of the National Art Competition showed an interesting enamelled silver cup and,
of the present year was upon the whole encouraging. cover. Good examples of pictorial enamel were to
4&»
There were few things of uncommon excellence,
and in two or three departments a considerable
falling off of quality was noticeable, but the general ^
average of the work was fully up to that of any of
the last three or four exhibitions. Perhaps the
greatest advance was shown in the jewellery contri-
buted by the Birmingham and London schools, of , sjL5" X2_\-L
which the best examples have been praised by the '<X*"3& ^f^^B^m*^
examiners, Messrs. Nelson Dawson, Alexander "^(A ""ffltfj^tff*
Fisher, and T. Erat Harrison, in terms that some
may think exaggerated. When the achievements
of the jewellers of the past—and of the present
too—are remembered, it is going rather far to
say of the necklets and rings made by two young teapot : design based on a flowering plant, by
students that they are " of such excellence as to ernest m. gilliard (Bristol, Kensington school)
compare with the best work of any time." How-
ever, it must be admitted that the necklet and be seen in the circular panel of blue and grey by
cross in gold filigree and enamel, by Thomas Clara A. Lavington of Leeds (Vernon Street); in
Cuthbertson of Birmingham (Margaret Street) ; the series of tiny oval plaques of heads and birds
and the necklet in silver, enamel, and stones by by Amy Copson of Birmingham (Vittoria Street),
Edward Joseph of the Camden School of Art, and in the figure by Dorothea Weeks, of Camber-
well School of Arts and
Crafts. A casket of silver
with enamelled plaques by
Mildred Webb of Birming-
ham (Margaret Street), and
an enamelled bracelet by
Cornelius W. Exton of
Birmingham (Vittoria Street)
were of more than average
merit, and Kathleen M.
green and white bowls. by george GooDALi. (salford) Quigly of Dublin suggested
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Islington, showed exceptional ability, in
workmanship if not in design. Cuthbert-
son is nineteen and Joseph only fourteen
years old. Some gold earrings and a ring,
by Alice M. Camwell of Birmingham
(Margaret Street), are also deserving of
high praise.
The enamels were not so good as those
shown a few years ago, when admirable
work was being done by a small group of
clever Dublin students. A gold medal
has deservedly been awarded to Jean
Campbell of the Camden School of Art
for a pot-pourri jar of pierced silver and
enamel that is charming both in shape
repousse mirror-frame by Walter ray (macclesfiei.d) "nd colour; Another attractive piece of
work of a simpler kind was the silver and
enamel case for a glass scent-bottle, by
only of holiday-making and ot getting away from Mary J. Binnkigton of Bradford School of Art;
London. and Harry Isaac, of the Camden School of Art,
The exhibition of the National Art Competition showed an interesting enamelled silver cup and,
of the present year was upon the whole encouraging. cover. Good examples of pictorial enamel were to
4&»
There were few things of uncommon excellence,
and in two or three departments a considerable
falling off of quality was noticeable, but the general ^
average of the work was fully up to that of any of
the last three or four exhibitions. Perhaps the
greatest advance was shown in the jewellery contri-
buted by the Birmingham and London schools, of , sjL5" X2_\-L
which the best examples have been praised by the '<X*"3& ^f^^B^m*^
examiners, Messrs. Nelson Dawson, Alexander "^(A ""ffltfj^tff*
Fisher, and T. Erat Harrison, in terms that some
may think exaggerated. When the achievements
of the jewellers of the past—and of the present
too—are remembered, it is going rather far to
say of the necklets and rings made by two young teapot : design based on a flowering plant, by
students that they are " of such excellence as to ernest m. gilliard (Bristol, Kensington school)
compare with the best work of any time." How-
ever, it must be admitted that the necklet and be seen in the circular panel of blue and grey by
cross in gold filigree and enamel, by Thomas Clara A. Lavington of Leeds (Vernon Street); in
Cuthbertson of Birmingham (Margaret Street) ; the series of tiny oval plaques of heads and birds
and the necklet in silver, enamel, and stones by by Amy Copson of Birmingham (Vittoria Street),
Edward Joseph of the Camden School of Art, and in the figure by Dorothea Weeks, of Camber-
well School of Arts and
Crafts. A casket of silver
with enamelled plaques by
Mildred Webb of Birming-
ham (Margaret Street), and
an enamelled bracelet by
Cornelius W. Exton of
Birmingham (Vittoria Street)
were of more than average
merit, and Kathleen M.
green and white bowls. by george GooDALi. (salford) Quigly of Dublin suggested
296