This section is from "The Horticulturist, And Journal Of Rural Art And Rural Taste", by P. Barry, A. J. Downing, J. Jay Smith, Peter B. Mead, F. W. Woodward, Henry T. Williams. Also available from Amazon: Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste.
A beautiful flower-stand in Parian ware, is one of the many forms into which this elegant material has been wrought The stand has been exhibited in the windows in Chestnut Street, and our artist has faithfully copied it. The annexed flower-vase is a specimen of Swiss carving in wood; the delicate imitative sculpture which it exhibits, is white, and reflects credit upon the ingenuity of the artist. These sculptures are becoming quite the vogue, and it would not do for a work devoted to rural art, to neglect entirely such rustic productions.
 
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