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Clocks, chandeliers, and bronzes; Matifat. Photographer: Ferrier, Claude-Marie
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Display of clocks and other items by the French manufacturer C. S. Matifat: 'The Jury consider the contributions by this exhibitor to be of a very high order. They are chiefly works in bronze, and bronze gilt and silvered, consisting of chandeliers, candelabra, ...
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Close view from the side of the bronze lion cast by the Bavarian Ferdinand Miller from the model by Professor Halbig, 'regarded by the Jury as a most admirable example of successful casting. It is said to be one of a pair cast at the same time from the same furn...
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of General view of display of metalwork by R. W. Winfield: 'Mention has already been made to the collection of brass-work contributed by this exhibitor, as displaying very perfect workmanship with a moderate amount of ornamentation … This house has also had the mer...
Shield, present to the Prince of Wales by the King of Prussia. Photographer: Ferrier, Claude-Marie
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Head-on view of the circular embossed shield, given to the Prince of Wales as a christening present by the King of Prussia: 'His Majesty furnished the general plan of the work: the drawings for it were designed by the celebrated painter Cornelius, the architectu...
Vase in repoussé work, by Vechte; Hunt and Roskell. Photographer: Ferrier, Claude-Marie
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View of repoussé silver vase by Vechte, exhibited by Hunt of Roskell of Bond Street: 'The exhibition of Messrs. Hunt and Roskell presents an assemblage of articles of rare magnificence … The Jury, however, prefer, among all the articles in Messrs. Hunt and Roske...
Group in silver; Hancock. Photographer: Ferrier, Claude-Marie
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View of silverware piece showing two men in combat, a fallen horse between them, on a base inscribed, 'Goodwood 1851,' photographed against a dark background. This was one of a number of pieces exhibted by C. F. Hancock of Bruton Street.
Silver centre-piece in repoussé work; Froment-Meurice. Photographer: Ferrier, Claude-Marie
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Close view of the table centre-piece by Froment-Meurice of Paris, arranged against a dark background: '…The attention of the Jury has been arrested by a centre-piece, representing Ceres, Bacchus, and Venus standing upon the terrestrial globe, which is encircled ...