T11E INTERNATIONAL EXHIBIT10N, 1876.


last quarter of a century was abundantly proven by the rich and varied displays
in the English Court. In no other branch of industry was this more noticeable
than in the ceramics.  The very choice exhibit of the MESSRS. DANIELL alone
was evidence of this. Here were to be seen the very finest productions of
the
potter's skill-original designs showing education in the best schools, clever
reproductions of famous fabriques, copies of rare antiques, and examples
of the
latest discoveries in the art. We have already presented to our readers in


Vecklace: Belleza, of Rome.


these pages illustrations of several of the most noteworthy objects in this
col-
lection, and we now add another, on page I82, of a fine MAJOLICA FLOWEE
VASE, that during the Exhibition was given a place of honor in the aisle
of the
Main Building. The vase is composed of two scollop-shells, beautifully tinted
within, and colored on the outside with brown, graduated up to white, as
they
appear in nature. At either end are two gracefully modeled mermaids, with
their arms crossed over the breasts.  The lower portions of the bodies are
intertwined and rest upon the base of the vase, on which are sea-weed and
shells. The human part of the figures is beautifully tinted of a flesh color,
the


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