Frei Art Glass Co. v. United

The appellant imported from Germany, under the Tariff Act of 1922, five shipments of articles which were entered as “works of art and mosaics.” These articles are of three classes. First, a piece known as Exhibit 1, made of large pieces of metallic glass joined together and painted with mineral paint by a recognized artist and thereafter vitrified, the whole representing a scene from the life of Christ. Second, copies made of small pieces of colored glass, of certain mosaics of the third century, to be found in the cathedral of Santa Maria Maggiore in Nome, Italy. Third, original mosaic…