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EXPOSITION AT VIENNA.
The arched entrances to the Vienna buildings, leading into
the interior courts, affbrd suitable places on either side, in
niches, for groups of
statuary. These are
supplied in part by this
establishment. A draw-
ing of one out of an
inimitable group of four
pieces is he re given.
They represent com
merce and manufac-
tures, gardening and
agriculture, Science and
art, huutiug and fish
ing. The height of
each piece is three feet
five inches; breadth,
two feet five inches;
and depth, one foot four
inches.
The terra-cotta productions of this establishment are to
be secn not only in the principal public buildings and pal-
aces of Vienna, bat abound in Prague, Pesth, in Athens,
Smyrna and Bucharest. They are exported to Germany,
Switzerlaud, Italy, Russin, Turkey, Asia and America.
In this brauch of their business the Company employ
three hundred and fifty workmeu, and four large burning
ovens twenty-two feet in diameter for the large pieces of
terra-cotta wäre, besides smaller ovens and mufiles for
burning-in the colors of the majolica wäre.
The Company have two extensive depots for their goods
in Vienna, besides a stock of samples for exhibition in the
lower story of the engineer’s and architect’s building.
The transportation from the works is by railways, canals,
and common roads. There are also local tramways, upon
which horses are used. There are about nine hundred
horses belonging to the Company.