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                                     THE ART-JOURNAL CATALOGUE OF
We engrave from the im- try (chiefly for the use of upholsterers) exhibited
by M. MoucizAc-one of his " PoRTIkAEs," no manufacturer of
  portant and valuable col-                                             
                                     France is better en
  lection of works in Tapes- and also two BORDERS for curtains. To M. Mourceau
has been awarded one of the gold medals, and  titled to the honour.
  ceramic works have been translated into a different material. The which
are of a strictly ecclesiastical character, and destined to be
  modem glass-maker might learn much from the ancient ceramist; associated
with the ritual of the Roman Church-the EAxpCsition is
  but he ought to study with a constant remembrance that in his remarkable
rather for the absence than for the presence of repro-
  own adaptations the different natures of transparent and opaque ductions
and adaptations in the Gothic stle. Here and there a
  materials must be observed, and consequently that he ought in  solitary
example of Gothic jewellery may be distinguished, as in
  no instance to permit himself to produce what really would be the instance
of the beautiful morse of Bishop William of Wyke-
  glass models of fine pottery. In bronze the forms and the treat- ham, reproduced
as a brooch by Mr. Phillips, and the Gothic
  ment of ceramic works may be adapted with greater ease and bracelet of
Mr. Brogden; and, in like manner, a few experimental
  more certain success; and yet even here the artist in bronze can  pieces
of Gothic furniture have established themselves in the
  scarcely expect unqualified success without a constant reference midst
of the multitudes of Renaissance works of the same class,
  to those constructive qualities which distinguish a metal as well the most
important being the fine dressoir for a dining-hall, exhi-
  from glass as from clay.                                       bited by
the Messrs. HOLLEwD, of London. With this last-named
     With the exception of one important class of works-those work may be
associated an object of a very different character,
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