84         THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876.
For a drawing-room ornament, or for a collector's cabinet, or for purposes
of
illustration in a museum, we have seen no single piece of crystal that is
a
better example than this of the perfection of modern glass-working.


Vase: Herr Lobmeyr, Vienna.


We wonder that, in these days of collection-making, more people have
not taken to getting together specimens of artistic glass. Certainly a well-
selected assortment of choice crystal makes one of the most beautiful and