The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-12-16
magnificent Dresden china and WedgwoOd

ana OF yet more elegant OF massive size in
faience and porcelain from the Royal Por,
celain Works. Others are 10 the style Of
Limoges Jaience, large two-handled jars
with decoration in relief. Ale mugs and
pitchers, jugs, chocolate pots, &C., are
made of the beautiful Flemish ware made
at Hier, near the Rhine. Pitchers Of
etched English glass, in classic shapes, are
used for water and wine; claret jugs are
seen in the same ware. Tall epergncs of
the thinnest glass are set on mirror trays;
lily-shaped vases droop from curving
branches for flowers; other flower vases
are hung by transparent links of purest
glass in the shape Of pinks or tulips, with
spiked upright leaves, and there are beak-
ers and troughs and bowls for flowers, and
from a broad raised foot rise transparent
tiers Of candlesticks. A pretty device is
that of the conjunction of opaque and
transparent glass. Finger-bowls of Vene-
tian glass are in harlequin sets, or all diff
ferent.
Still rarer is reproduction of the Bo-
hemian glass in the shapes used in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, mostly
produced in France, the Low Countries,
and Germany. Here are pair of huge
punch bowls of thin glass of Rhenish
green, decorated in vivid colors with hunt
ing scenes, banners, scrolls, and shields
bearing the coats-of-arms of barons of the
petty kingdoms of that period. The same
style is Shown in sea-blue as well as green
in jars, goblets, and antique drinking-cup
and large ale mugs. In the present taste
for pug-dogs, the earth appears to tecm
with short noses and black muzzles, and
so to please the popular fancy there are
quantities of these fascinating animals re :
produced in yellow and brown, black -nosed
hideous pugs life-sized, together with huge
frogs and cats of intense green china and
terra Gotta for boudoir ornamentation.
Prices for bric.a-brac are so reduced in
price that the most modest housewife may
be possessed Of some copy in pottery or
glass of the work of Palissy, Cellini, Sal
yiati, Wedgwood, aud others of equal
fame.
Among the latest fashions in draperies
and upholstery fabrics is the Bonne de
Sole in Persian colors and Moorish de-
signs, in tan aud in black ground. This
also comes in less costly fabric Of the same
style for SO, and in two colors for $3.50 a
yard, 1t has fringed border. A new
fabric is made of jute and cotton, present
ing lustrous satiny face covered with
geometrical figures. Wood color and
drab are the popular colors. 1t is Sl25
yard. A magnificent new material is
the Velows pc Palermo, figured silk
velvet of richest Vaudyke crimson, and
also of light shades of wood and ash. The
designs are in arabesques, figured circles,
or traceries taken from specimens of the
Cinque-C Cento period, and large allantus
leaves. The superb Cheuaane satin damask
is of pale brown with light cream color
designs representing the arts, music, paint
ing, sculpture, in one group. In another
are Cupids wreathed and garlanded with
flowers. Another fashionable shade Of
this beautiful fabric is in Holbein green,
taking on an olive tint with dusky arabes.
ques. In these fabrics is reproduced the
fashions of the silk draperies of the four
teenth century, which are covered with
curled, crispy leaves, entwined about the
sacred cross also the Moresco-Spanish
textiles, showing circular horations. Some
supurb stufls Of Saracenic manufacture
were covered with tufted headed trees,
birds and animals. These are now being
reproduced in costly draperies for windows,
portiere's and for covering furniture. The
Valley flower is another fabric of intense
Vandyk red, and in mode colors in floral
designs; this is composed of silk and linen.
Soft silky tapestries are shown in Per
sian and Arabian styles of grave colors,
the shades intermingling as seen in camels
hair shawls. Puffings are no longer used
on furniture; borders of gold and black
Grecian patterns are used instead, in two
widths. Drawing-room wall paper is
shown in white and silver gilt, with gold
moldings, to be contrasted with blue or
crimson draperios. Another style has a
gold ground arabesqued with silver. East
lake, Morris, and Dresser, members of the
Royal Academy, send us designs after the
antique. The English Gothic is a fash
ionable wall paper of dark grave colors in
set figures, copied from medieval missals
and examples found in Oriental lands.
The dado has black ground in patterns
of figured circles, wheels, and medallions
in dead gold A handsome paper is made
in close imitation of leather for halls and
libraries the colors are green and drabs,
interspersed with gold Another style is
in imitation of tiles; the dado, of rich
Oriental colors, is in such elaborate designs
as might be copied from the orna mental
portions of Gothic architecture. Some of
the designs look like jeweled pottery.
The Eastlike Gothic work is seen in
dados, used instead of wainscotting. The
wall papers are generally dusky, with deep
rich coloring, here and there glittering
with dead gold. The figures are small
and are taken from Saxon, Medieval, and
Oriental sources, corresponding with brio
a-brac.--N, y Tribune.