INDUSTRIAL ART.


way.  With the same motive he has ornamented the arches formed by the
curved braces with a whorl of leaves, tendrils and blossoms, and again the
foliation appears in the finials to the uprights and standards. We bespeak
for
this piece of work a degree of attention on the part of our readers, not
only
because of the neighborhood from which it comes, but because of its own
intrinsic  excel-                          .             sign  for this


ence.
The CLOCK,
made by SUSSE
FRERES, of PARIS,
which we en-
grave on this
page, stands
some    thirty
inches in height
and is profuse-
ly ornamented.
The front and
all the casing
are of brass, the
body is of ebony,
and the figures
of the dial are
painted on round
porcelain medal-
lions.


clock has been
conceived seems
to be that of
Louis Quar-
torse,   when
French art fairly
reveled in elab-
orateness of or-
n a men tat io n.
We see this lux-
urious feeling in
the rich, sweep-
ing curves of
the base, in the
heraldic-like
decoration  be-
low the dial, and
in the shape and
garlanding  of
the  urn  sur-


The style in             Clock: Susse frires, Paris.    mounting   tne
which the   de-                                            upper portion
of the piece.  We see it, too, in the winged heads displayed on the front
in
relief as medallions, or in the round scrolls as ornaments to the corners;
and
it is also visible in the flaming vases on the top. All of this work is executed
with the finish and skill of which French workmen are such masters, and the
result is an elaborate and in a double sense a striking clock.
Another work exhibited by the same firm is the BRASS CANDELABRA which




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