MOREL'S J Dlet L - WORN.
Since the days when Benvenuto Cellini made -salt-cellars to order, art has somewhat neglected the goldsmith craft ; although some traces of genius have never quite left that trade, especially in Fraike; and now art is returning to the workman. Our own hunting-cups and table-plate can boast of displaying the most lifelike sculpture amongst us. Some work- manlike excellences of a very valuable kind are shown in specimens which Messrs. Morel and Company are now exhibiting at their rooms in New Burlington Street. An agate cup, mounted with fine gold and enamel, is a remarkable example of decorative art : the tints on the gold are so pure and bright that they seem to be born of the jewel and the humming-bird. A beautiful silver centre-piece for the table—a triumphal arbour of vines surmounting a group of youthful vintagers, with branches for wax-lights and cups for bouquets—is striking not only for its graceful and animated design, but for the admirable skill with which the material is handled— burnished to the utmost brilliancy, or deadened to a pearly softness.
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