Studio: international art (84.1922)

PRINCE AND PRINCESS. MARIONETTE
THEATRE FIGURES IN "THE PRINCESS
AND THE WATERMAN " BY R. TESCHNER

materials is as astonishing as are his other
qualities. He may have studied them, but
he knows them and their uses, for his
peculiar purposes, by instinct. He fashions
them at will in obedience to his intentions ;
he sculptures in wood, in soapstone, in
jade, in marble, as in other materials. His
mahogany statuette with amber eyes and
gilded drapery, here reproduced, bears
testimony to the fertile thought and the
superb craftsmanship emanating from one
and the same mind in this the realisation
of perfection of workmanship, beauty of
design, and right use of material. 0

But the realisation of these same quali-

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ties is to be found in all Teschner's artistic
output, and is the underlying characteristic
of everything he does. His art makes no
attempt to be didactic, neither is it of the
kind to dazzle and captivate the many,
but those who have once come under its
spell are not likely to forget it. Of his
craftsmanship the same may be said as was
said of William Morris, who " left nothing
in an unfinished state that could be
finished " ; with whom nothing was passed
as satisfactory " until it had been brought
as near as human hands could avail to
bring it, to that ideal standard he had con-
ceived of it in his own mind." 0 0