ART-JOURNAL ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE.

    gaeonthe preceding page, and two on . this  Messrs. COWLEY & JAIIEs,
of Walsall, exhibit hands of a tasteful designer, may be made 'an
column.It is quite needless to expatia~te uponU the brass CHANDELILM here
engraved, and which. elegant adjunct to the drawing-room. H lovrever
the taste displayed in the adaptation of these  consists- of floral ornament,
of alight and grace- elaborate or beautiful the design and executioni of
natural forms to manufacturing art. On the    ful character, well calculated
to relieve from  such articles of modern furniture may be,we must
second column of the preceding page we have   weighty monotony, an article
which, in the  confess that we think heaviness of construction,-
also introduced a jewelled BROOCH, in the style
of tho cinqucen-to period; this object requires























close exam  ln     ne can appreciate the
beauty of   design.    the bottom of the
same page  aBUACELET 1t with diamonds and
carbuncles with portraits  the Queen and the
Prince of Wales, af 'iFhorburn, A.R.A., and
executed in   ngraved by J. J. Crew. A














                                           or even weightiness of appearance,
a very objec- artisan hould be the onstruction of a receptacle
                                           tionable quality, whenever exhibited.
In some for light, which, like that element, should be
                                           instances, the style or character
of the apartment ethereal, and graceful, and ponderosity be espe-
                                           for which they are intended may
demand a certain  cially eschewed. The BEDSTEAD, by the same
                                           'weight," but the prevailing
idea to guide the manufacturers, has the quality of lightness in a

 CHRISTENING Cup, embellished with angels keep-
 ing watch over a kneeling child, designed by
 R    Redgrave, RLA, completes our illustrations of
 the contributions of Messrs. Gass; but we may
 hereafter find   occasion  to  pay  their stand
 another visit, as we observed among their pro-
















 ductions several objects deserving of notice; a
 silver gauntlet uiello bracelet, designed by D. eakbedgetedsg       adOnIet-cnicd
           rm   ogeprecta        ti   a
 Maclise, ILA,;; a     silvered and jewelled dessert rmkaldeethdestkignd;andyoweament
   ea-sonined, foromuclong exprienc, that ito isfane
 set, in the Elizabethan style; numerous  rticles tion being Of the simple
  id ad weoust  eair tonpro      suchwos    thap. onconfine
        of eweler, o vaiou kidsand in diversified  say, we prefer it to much
offherovewroughbdecortionbt thatwihi ip     e ad  pO-_
  styjlle;s and alarge vase, most ingeniously com-O and highly-elaborated
articles, which we are not P  late; the  e  on     t  o
  osye;ad o  ua h-gg  air, exectined yJ.Wouley.  unfrequently called upon
to niotice. We  are  mnit the latter only by the artist of taste

                              .osed of human hair, executed by J. Woolley5