DOI Heft:
No. 341 (August 1921)
DOI Artikel:Chester, Austin: Some works of art from the Far East
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21393#0085
STUDIO-TALK
CHAIRS AND TABLES OF HUA-LI, THE
ROSEWOOD OF THE PORTUGUESE
That their forms are not strange to us is
probably due to the fact that, in the early
eighteenth century, the East India Com-
pany brought similar furniture here. Its
beauty so greatly impressed Sheraton, Hep-
pelwhite, and Chippendale, that they used
these imported innovations as models.
Chippendale's work clearly shows the in-
fluence of the Orient. He avoided of course
employment of Buddhist emblems, for in
these chairs we get, as usual, emblems of
happy augury or of long life or devices
intended to be read in Rebus fashion. A
jui sceptre lies upon one of the tables. It
owes its peculiar form to the sacred fungus.
Like the sceptre of the Wells Bequest it is
of white jade mottled as with rust at one
end. It is also carved in relief with an
Imperial dragon which climbs the handle
towards the large lotus leaf disc. A jade
vase of exquisite workmanship and design
is in the lower shelf of the second table, a
Austin Chester.
Mr. Brangwyn's painting, The Market
Stall, which, by the courtesy of Mr. Croal
Thomson of Barbi^on House, we repro-
duced as a frontispiece to our June
number, has been re-acquired by the
artist and accepted by the Council of
the Royal Academy as his diploma work.
STUDIO-TALK.
{From our own Correspondents.)
LONDON.—Particulars of next year's
competitions for scholarships offered
by the British School of Rome in the
faculties of Decorative Painting, Engrav-
ing (including lithography and wood
engraving) and Sculpture have now been
published, and those who intend to com-
pete should without delay make them-
selves acquainted with the conditions, as
notice of such intention, accompanied by
a birth certificate, must be sent to the
Honorary General Secretary of the School
(i, Lowther Gardens, London, S.W. 7),
before the end of the present year. The
scholarships will be of the value of £250,
tenable for three years, and candidates
must be British subjects under 30 years
of age on July 1st, 1922, but allowance
may be made for any period spent in war
service. In each of these competitions
there will be an open examination, followed
by a final examination in London, restricted
to four selected candidates, a a a
By common consent the Royal Academy
Exhibition of 1921 has been a great im-
provement on its predecessors so far as
concerns the general appearance of the
display, as a result of the great reduction
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CHAIRS AND TABLES OF HUA-LI, THE
ROSEWOOD OF THE PORTUGUESE
That their forms are not strange to us is
probably due to the fact that, in the early
eighteenth century, the East India Com-
pany brought similar furniture here. Its
beauty so greatly impressed Sheraton, Hep-
pelwhite, and Chippendale, that they used
these imported innovations as models.
Chippendale's work clearly shows the in-
fluence of the Orient. He avoided of course
employment of Buddhist emblems, for in
these chairs we get, as usual, emblems of
happy augury or of long life or devices
intended to be read in Rebus fashion. A
jui sceptre lies upon one of the tables. It
owes its peculiar form to the sacred fungus.
Like the sceptre of the Wells Bequest it is
of white jade mottled as with rust at one
end. It is also carved in relief with an
Imperial dragon which climbs the handle
towards the large lotus leaf disc. A jade
vase of exquisite workmanship and design
is in the lower shelf of the second table, a
Austin Chester.
Mr. Brangwyn's painting, The Market
Stall, which, by the courtesy of Mr. Croal
Thomson of Barbi^on House, we repro-
duced as a frontispiece to our June
number, has been re-acquired by the
artist and accepted by the Council of
the Royal Academy as his diploma work.
STUDIO-TALK.
{From our own Correspondents.)
LONDON.—Particulars of next year's
competitions for scholarships offered
by the British School of Rome in the
faculties of Decorative Painting, Engrav-
ing (including lithography and wood
engraving) and Sculpture have now been
published, and those who intend to com-
pete should without delay make them-
selves acquainted with the conditions, as
notice of such intention, accompanied by
a birth certificate, must be sent to the
Honorary General Secretary of the School
(i, Lowther Gardens, London, S.W. 7),
before the end of the present year. The
scholarships will be of the value of £250,
tenable for three years, and candidates
must be British subjects under 30 years
of age on July 1st, 1922, but allowance
may be made for any period spent in war
service. In each of these competitions
there will be an open examination, followed
by a final examination in London, restricted
to four selected candidates, a a a
By common consent the Royal Academy
Exhibition of 1921 has been a great im-
provement on its predecessors so far as
concerns the general appearance of the
display, as a result of the great reduction
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