Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-02-09
NEW CHINA GLASSWARE.
Descriptions of the Finest Designs
Offered for the Holidays

descriptions OF the Finest Designs
Offered for the Holidays
The recent importations include
among the richest manufactures the
Vienna wares with characterization 0.
fine art quality. A. variety Of the plates
adorned with paintings OF Hydrologic
al or historical subjects should be
reczoned treasures at 5000 dozen A
recent fancy is represented in dessert
plates with plain oenters and elabor-
ately decorated borders. One fine va
riety Of this style in Vienna ware Ia
$50 per doz. The decoration In COLE
is traced on the dark border, the cen.
ter being OF light tone. A dozen ins nct
classes of wares may be divided in four
different colors, as pink, blue, gray anc
yellow, The new fish and game plates
include fine examples In still life sub
jects from Mitchell and other celebrat-
ed designers. In one of the best styles
Of dinner plates the border Is of neat
design, with gold beaded edgea. One
on the new Minton varieties with a
pink border ia rough finish, adorned
with semi-picrced designs, has finely
painted floral decoration massed al one
side of the center In an arrangement
equally fancied in other manufactures.
This allows OF fruit or Of any article
Of dessert being laid on the plate with
out covering the fine special ornament
placed at one side.
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Dresden Of exquisite beauty, with
decoration in gold, the plates of this
variety being valued at $3.50 per dozen.
In different style, from the same
factory, the ornament filling the center
is In the form of massed roses thrown
out with surprising effect Of relief. en-
circled with pierced border uniting
colors with gold in exquisite deEicacy
and richness. Other plates OF thit
ware show sumptuOus form Of de.
coratation In raised designs in gila, With
leaves and flowers I'm massive Effects.
In the same manufacture are fms cam
delabra and vases OF varied forms a
multitude of novelties In small ARTICLES
In this ware includes little baskets,
with handles, for pepper and saA
ornamented with clusters OF email
bright flowers, and great variety OF
reticulated forms of round dishes, witk
many others in leaf shapes and mors
peculiar formations; rose jars In the
finest beauty of tint and luster, cracker
jars, multiform baskets and candle
sticks fit for royal palaces.
So much OF Dresden fabrication
was never seen before in Che form OF
vases and figures representing people
in all ranks and occupations. One Of
the exhibited groups, for example, is
complete band of musiciana This
numerous varieties of vases frequently
with serpent handles are fine in tints
Of rose. pink, yellow and royal blue.
A rare curiosity from the Dresden
works is Cupid shown within boz
with a lace veil as light as air which il
formed in the china thrown over the
figure.
One of the most important pisces Of
porcelain painting is a copy from the
Madonna of the Choir, coming from
Munchen, of which the estimated value
is 200.
Some fine things in Grown Derby, ap.
pear in the collections with the usual
distinction and in new effects of re
markable beauty. A bottle-shape6
vase with cover in dark mottled greeH
with decoration in gold is marked
among rich new pieces Another, with
plain ivory-tinted lower part. shows
superb character of decoration 1nassed
over the upper portion. A piece o.
this form In pink with gold and browH
is a fine example, and another of rich
er ornamentation, decorated over the
entire surface in floral designs with
gold outline work and fine selections In
color represents this manufacture in
high development. Varieties OF cups
J, and saucers in this ware at $16o sci
are finely adorned, and others costing
SOS are not less desirable. Some oil
the most exquisite OF these forms Of ar
ticles in the hands of dealers at present
are in Vienna ware ut $3.50 and OF $32s
set, which are charmingly painted
with series Of figures on each piece.
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