WALL AND FLOOE TILES.
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Each tile bears a part of the general design. A jardiniere , lined with a movable zinc or copper tray, takes the place of a mantel-shelf, and is designed to be filled with cut or growing 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 faience imitations of Persian and Oriental. The prominent objects were the broad mural panels of the pavilion, or canopy, within which the smaller 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 blending 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 about one metre long and half a metre wide, several being grouped together to form one panel some 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 Russia. Another panel was decorated with branches of the Japanese flowering peach, of full size and excellent in color, and with showy aquatic plants, all upon a groundwork or background of canary yellow enamel. Work of this kind, for walls of apartments, is furnished at 450 francs per square metre; the great cost being in the artistic decoration, for the basis is cheap clay ware, which seems hardly worthy of such expensive and beautiful additions. The raised, embossed form of the enamel, obtained doubtless by successive additions, is peculiarly favorable to the distinctness of the flowers, giving 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 successive great Exhibitions, and he has been honored by an imperial decoration in recogni-