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EXPOSITION AT VIENNA.*
The arched entrances to the Vienna buildings, leading into the interior courts, afford suitable places on either side, in
niches, for groups of
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statuary. These are supplied in part by this establishment. A drawing of one out of an inimitable group of four pieces is here given. They represent commerce and manufactures, gardening and agriculture, science and art, hunting and fishing. 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 seen not only in the principal public buildings and palaces of Vienna, but abound in Prague, Pesth, in Athens, Smyrna and Bucharest. They are exported to Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Russia, Turkey, Asia and America.
In this branch of * their business the'company employ three hundred and fifty workmen, and four large burning ovens twenty-two feet in diameter for the large pieces of terra-cotta ware, besides smaller ovens and muffles for burning-in the colors of the majolica ware.
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.