Masterpieces of industrial art & sculpture at the International exhibition, 1862
This is a large folio of chromolithographic plates by J. B. Waring, published in London by Day & Son in 1863, presenting selected objects from the 1862 International Exhibition for an audience of manufacturers and designers. The plates show ornamental ironwork screens with statuary, carved horn and silver drinking vessels, jewelled combs and brooches, and an elaborate carved mirrored sideboard. A designer could draw on their dense Victorian ornament, with scrollwork, rosette grilles, stag-antler motifs and gem-set patterns, for historicist decoration.
