THE NEW-YORK EXHIBITION ILLUSTRATED

The large Silver Dish ■which commences this pageis also from the manufactory of Messrs. Bailey. It ap-pears solid, massy, and well wrought in a mechanicalpoint of view, but we cannot call it beautiful in ail re-

spects. The figure of an elephant which surmounts it,

is clumsy, awkward, and absurd, and fills ill, or not at all,the place of a handle to the cover, for which it was designed.

The succeeding engraving represents a compositionof roses carved in relief upon a slab of Carrara marble.

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It is the work of Signor Zacoagna, of Carrara.

A piece of elaborately carved furniture—a Table — | is contributed by Jotin A. Clark, a designer of ornamental

furniture in Dublin. We do not care to see little images | or

tall an( j s i en( j er floral ornaments, however delicately | carved, perched upon the legs of a table or elsewhere at-

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taehed when they have no constructive use. Decora-

tions of this description are certainly not useful, and as | certainly they are not in good taste.