Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-21
WEDDING PRESENTS.
An Interesting Exhibition i'm BERLIN.


4 correspondent of the London DdiEy
Ne,rS writing from Berlin SAYS: THE sill
yer wedding presents to the Crown Prince
and Crown Princess of Germany are now
for short time on view i'm the Museum
Of Industry at Berlin. The exhibition
comprises only those presents possessing
artistic or highly industrial value. En-
terin@ the hall, the bust of Queen VictO-
ria 10y Mr.. Boehm. conspicuous for IFS
fine realistic execution, attracts the first
notice. On the opposite side the bust of
her daughter. the Crown Princess. bv
ReinhOld Begas, Of Berlin, crowned with
"A laurel wreath, forms the centre of a
splendid group Of hOthOuse flowers
and plants. Behind the bust of the
Crown Princess i spread the enormous
carpet presented by the estates of the
Province Of Silesia. Before the bust, ON
two large stands, the presents wrought
OF precious metals. the donors of which
are the Emperor and Empress, and the
relations of the Prince and Princess. have
found place. The imperial parents pre-
sent. a tea set consisting of twelve silver
pieces. gilt inside. of highly elaborate
workmanship, after an old Chinese pat
tern, has been executed in Berlin. The
Crown Prince surprised his cOnsOrt
with a beautiful tureen, manufactured
in England in 1850. OF English make,
with 1870 imprinted on it, is also the
sugar box presented by Lady DOwne,
and of a somewhat newer date the
decanter, by the Marquis of HertfOrd.
The Duke OF Cambridge's gift is golden
sugar-bOX OfQueen Charlotte of England,
and Lord and Lady Ampthill's a roc ocO
writing-case. 4 large SilVer-gilt cup,
presented by Prince Alexander: a silver
gilt dish, with Il view Of the castle of AL |
tenburg on it. the gift of the Duke and
Duchess of Altenburg aud the silver bou-
qUet presented 10y the Princess William
Of Prussia as Queen of Love during the
costume festival, bear witness of the high
standard the precious metal industry has
reached.
''The gift Of the King of Italy is table
with views of Roman monuments and the
capitoIean she wolf beautifully wrought
i'm mosaic. The country ladies of the
Province of Brandeubur9 presented six
very costly seats, and fourteen towns of
the PruSsian monarchy complete set of
dining room furniture - everything, of
course of the most costly description, in
Guiding a dinner service for tOrty-cight
guests, Of the finest porcelain, made in
the Royal Porcelain Mandatory, and
painted by AdOlf Menzel, in a humOrOusly
quaint as well as highly artistic manner.
4 bronze chandelier of enormous size COM
pletes this magnificent present of the
fourteen towns. The hereditary Prince and
Princess Of Meiuingcn, and the Princesses
Victoria, Sophie and Margaret have pre-
scented bronze statuctteS executed after
medieval masters. The officers of the
court have presented a splendid concert
pianOfOrte by Bechstein, gOTgeOusly deco
rated with gold, and painted by Ewald and
Hertel. OF the Berlin artists A. Won Wer-
ner has presented painting in water
cOlOrs, The Baptism of Prince Frederic
William (the Crown Prince, and L.
HOTner, the celebrated landscape painter
in water cOlOrs, Jerusalem as seen from
the Crown Princes residence, when
there on visit i'm 1867 Gustav
Richter's water color painting repre-
sents the triumphal entry of the
Emperor, the Crown Prince, and
the German Generals after the French
war. and a sketch by Bleibtreu, The
Crown Prince with his staff recOnnOiter-
ing before Paris near the village of Gar
ches, on. the 19th E0f January, 1ST1.' The
Duke and Duchess of Anhalts gift is
portrait in oil of the Great ElectOr,'
painted by a contemporary Dutch master,
and the COmte and COmtesse dc Flanders
a copy of Ruben's 'Jacqueline dc COrdes'
i'm the Museum of Brussels. very fine
oil painting is the 'LagO MaggiOre,' by
Arthur LutterOth. a Hamburg painter of
reputation. y massive, beautiful carved
Oaken bench is presented by the Germanic
Museum at Nuremberg. Major Won kessel
has presented two works Of art, modelled
by him and cast in zinc. The Grand Duke
of Hesse's gift is a sidebOard of the
eighteenth century, with curlOusly
wrought ivory ornaments. The eX-Min-
lister, DIR. Prudential. who owns a terra
Gotta mandatory, presented two Mo
lOsse dogs, life size, in terra-cotta. Two
statuettes in bronze, representing
grenadier of the Silesian Regiment No.
IL. with the bayOnet, and dragOOn of
Regiment No. s in shooting posture, with
his carbine. modelled by the Crown Prin-
cess. have been east in bronze and pre-
sented by the officers of the two
regiments. Of which the Crown Prince
is honorary Colonel. The actress,
Frau Fried-Blumauer, presented a carved
and gilded casSette. On the right hand
side the numerous addresses of corpora
tiOns. etc, have been collected, before
which. on a high pedestal, is a bronze
bust of PiedmOntese Prince, by GiOvan-
nj Bologna, a gift of the King of Italy. \
sidebOard and terra-cOtta group, repre-
senting Princess William with her first
born, modelled by the sculptor ROemer, is
a present of Count POurtales. A ehroni-
Gle of the town of Constant has been
written by the officers of the Regiment
No. ia. in very successful imitation of
the medieval style, and the heavy leather
binding of the book is true copy of that
turned out in Gutenburg's time