Research
Of maple. The cabinet with two doors containing a total of twelve color lithographs, behind glass panes, and raised on brass casters. The interiors fitted with two side by side drawers at the top above four shelves.
This interesting side cabinet has been decorated with colorful lithographs of various decorative art objects, contained behind panes of glass on both the exterior and interior doors. The panels on the front of each cabinet door are taken from J. B. Waring’s “Masterpieces of Industrial Art and Sculpture at the [London] International Exhibition, 1862” (Day & Son, 1863), a three-volume set comprising 300 color plates. The selected illustrations include porcelain vases and plates, mainly by royal manufactories of Meissen, Copenhagen, Berlin, St. Petersburg and Paris, and from English potteries, as well as Viennese cloth and paper hangings. The grisaille plates of sculptures in the interior of the cabinet come from Matthew Digby Wyatt’s “Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century. A series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry, 1851” (Day & Son, 1851-53).
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