The Studio yearbook of decorative art (1906)

Garden Furniture

that, in a severe climate
like ours, nude white
figures have a cold and
forlorn aspect in winter.
It may be so, but no
such objection can hold
good in the case of bronze
and leaden statuary. True,
these metals are not in-

VOND.JriM in terra-cotta designed and executed expensive j but Statues, it

by doulton & co., ltd., lambeth should be remembered,

are luxuries that require
to be paid for, and are

others, places where the sculptor's art is most free
to express itself in what Canova declared to be its
only language, viz., the nude. There fancy and
idealisation may rightly find their congenial home
and atmosphere. It has, indeed, been objected

bird bath

designed by mrs. g. f. watts
executed by the potters' art guild

worth paying for, too, if they possess any merit
as decoration or any charm whatsoever. There
can be no possible satisfaction in cheap plaster
figures, nor poor sculptured stone, which time
and weather, so far from mellowing and enhanc-
ing, inevitably render shabbier and grimier and
more mouldily decaying year after year.

In the way of modern sculpture for garden

garden statue : the slinger

by basil gotto, sculptor statuary, Mr. Basil Gotto's "Shnger" (opposite) is an