House and Garden 
MODERN COPIES OF OLD BENCHES, MADE AT THE TIFFANY STUDIOS 
From the Tiffany Studios 
From the H. 0. Watson Gallery 
From the Adams Gallery 
walls. A few of these have come across the 
Atlantic, their sides ornamented in low re¬ 
lief. Small sarcophagi are now used in the 
same way. One ingenious importer has taken 
what was probably a child’s burial case and 
cut it in half, the sculptured adornment hap¬ 
pening to permit such treatment. The open 
ends were then cemented in as close imitation 
of the stone as possible. 
No decorative factors are more influential 
than the stone jars or vases, crowning gate 
posts or distributed along balustrades or 
walls. American buyers need not lack speci¬ 
mens to choose from, for the importers have 
secured excellent examples from old gar¬ 
dens in Italy and France. What could be 
more crisply characteristic ot 
French taste of the Louis 
XIV period than the splen¬ 
did pair of stone vases from 
a chateau near Versailles, one 
of which, standing by a por¬ 
tal, is shown here ? If an 
art work ever reflected the spirit of its time, 
this tall and shapely jar does so. It has the 
grand style, so to speak, but it is not in the 
least flamboyant. Efficiency is stamped all 
over it, and a sort of conscious power, which 
does not stoop to pettiness. Entirely differ¬ 
ent in feeling are two old urns from Rome, 
made of the delicate pinkish white Pavo- 
nazzo marble. These, brought over for the 
FI. O. Watson Gallery in New York, have 
less assertiveness, but they possess a delicate 
charm whose influence is not to be escaped. 
Admirably effective on the wall of a gar¬ 
den or the exterior of a house would be 
the old escutcheon, with its union of 
Spanish and Italian quarterings, shown at 
the H. I). Gardiner Gallery. 
For the best of these 
old decorative objects from 
abroad, high prices are not 
only reasonable but unavoid¬ 
able. Added to the difficulty 
of finding them is the tariff 
AN OLD TREE-TUB 
GARDEN BOWL MADE FROM 
AN OLD FOUNTAIN BASIN 
AN OLD TREE-TUB 
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