THE NEW-YORK EXHIBITION ILLUSTRATED.

The silver Centre Piece, which we en-gi’ave upon this page, is also from the es-tablishment of Messrs. Garrard. It wasModelled by Edmund Cotteril, and re-flects credit upon his artistic talent andskill. The scene is that famous inter-

view in which the Duchess meets the renownedDon Quixote and his squire, with whose laughable knight-errantry all Spain had become fa-miliar through the genius of Cervantes. Thecharacteristics of the knight and his Rosinante,of Sancho and his Dapple, as they live in the gra-

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serving of particular attention. A great variety of tints are produced,from the green peculiar to bronze, to the rich and mellow shades of

Pfliy descriptions of Cervantes, are faithfully rendered in the silver.

Th e remainder of the page is occupied with two Bronze Vases and their details, exhibit-by Lerolle, Freres. We can hardly speak in terms of too high praise of the French

golden-brown. Tlie bronze alloy is usually made iu the following

proportions: copper, 82 parts; zinc, 18; pewter, 3; lead,

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a branch of art-manufacture that has become eminently Parisian.

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taste 8 i mo ® t ce l e brated artists furnish the designs, and they are executed by workmen whosebr 0nz aD “ Manipulative skill entitle them to the name of artists also. The color of the Frenchee * which depends on peculiar processes, both in the first and final operations, is de-— 81

thousand workmen are employed in Paris in the manufacture

e of bronzes.