The Studio yearbook of decorative art (1906)

Garden Furniture



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information as to the correct
time of day. Moreover, in
our uncertain climate, the
index of the sun is, at
the best, available for a
limited number of hours
only out of every twenty-
four; as the familiar legend,

pond rim in terra-cotta designed and executed HordS tlOll mtVierO tttSt

by doulton & co., ltd., lambeth ... r

serenas, with perfect can-

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interesting work ; while other nudes
for the like purpose, by Mr. Derwent
Wood, include three standing figures
(all on p. 260), and a group of
children with a seated woman, em-
blematical of "Abundance" (p. 262).
Mr. Broad's three draped female
statuettes in terra-cotta (all on
p. 261) include a pair representing
"Flora" and "Pomona" respectively.
The remaining work by Messrs.
Doulton is an eagle terminal (p. 258),
of somewhat heraldic character, for
the top of a pillar or gate-pier.

A sundial is another form of
luxury, because in these days, when
the moderate price of watches places
them within the means of everyone
but the very poorest, nobody can
seriously pretend to be indebted well-head in marble designed by mrs. g. f. watts
to this primitive contrivance for executed by the potters' akts guild

dour confesses. But that the
old-world picturesqueness and
peaceful indolence, which seem
to pervade sundials, afford a
wholesome protest against the
machine-driven hurry and neu-
rotic excitement of this twentieth-
century existence of ours, there
can be no question. If, how-
ever, one does elect to indulge
in a sundial, care should be
taken not to give it the lie by
B setting it up in such an aspect
i that it is for ever enveloped
'jPr in shadow, nor in such that, if

the sun does manage to reach
f it, the gnomon fails, through

inadequate meridiation, to
well-head in white terra-cotta register the hour with accuracy.

designed by mrs. g. f. watts ° j

executed by the potters' arts guild The sundial frame, based on

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