WALL AND FLOOR TILES.
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Each tile bears a part of the general design. A jardinüre,
lined with a movable zinc or copper tray, takes the place of
a mantel-shelf, and is designed to be filled with cut or grow-
in 0, flowers. The whole Stands about twelve feet high, and
is valued at 10,000 francs.
E. Collinot, Paris, made the most complete and varied
display of enamelled faieuce inritations of 1 ersiau and Oii-
ental. The prominent objects were the broad mural panels
of the pavilion, or canopy, within which the smallei objects,
such as vases, plaques and dishes, were arranged. Even
the columns supporting the canopy were formed of the
same material as the vases, and all were highly decorated
in Persian designs, laid on in brilliant but thick enamel, so
that each color stood out separately and in relief, without
running into or biending with the next. This was the
characteristic style of the enamel decoration, and resembled
the remarkable work by Parrillez, upon dishes and vases.
The tiles, or plates, for panels in the walls of apartments,
were altout oue metre long and half a metre wide, several
being grouped together to form one panel somo ten feet
long° and. three feet wide. One of these panels, decorated
in boldly-drawn figures of rocks, leaves and flowers, in
Chinese style, attracted much attention, and was sold to
the Grand Duke Vladimir of Kussia. Auother panel was
decorated with branches of the Japanese flowering peach,
of full size and excellent in color, and with sliowy aquatic
plants, all upon a groundwork or background of canary
yellow enamel. Work of this kind, for walls of apart
ments, is furnished at 450 francs per square metre; the
great cost being in the artistic decoration, for the basis is
cheap clay wäre, which seems hardly worthy of such expen-
sive and beautiful additions. The raised, embossed form of
the enamel, obtained doubtless by suecessive additions, is
peculiarly favorable to the distinctness of the flowers,
o-iving them a decided relief above the surface, while
their°outlines are sharply set off from the groundwork.
The productions of this artist have received gold and
silver medals at the suecessive great Exhibitions, and he
has been honored by an imperial decoration in recogm-
