New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-10
BEAUTIFUL CHINA.
SUGGESTIONS FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTS

SUGGESTIONS FOR CHhiSiMho uAr ID
Fine dinner services preferred In French and
English porceains. in Dresden or Roya' Berlin
china There Is a fancy this season for lighter
decorations I'm dinner service, and great many sets
are shown I'm white or cream, decorated with lead OF
mat gold On some OF the most costly CHINA the
gliding is applied heavily, and afterward etchcn o."
with acid In an elaborate chased design on cream or
colored background. Fine English services have
sprays and other decorations In gold raised Ut rehet
from Tho surface Of tho china. Handsome white
French china is finished this with deep shaded
borders Of Mazarn blues old rose, chocolate browns,
greens. turquoise blues other colors, and decorated
with fine lcafy vines c0tded effects Or direfcns
designs in dead gold and other metals. Some OF tho
most beautiful OF these borders are decorated WIN
delicate alLOvcr effect in platinum. a metal giving
the effect OF silver. but subject, like silver, 70
oxidation darkcnng Clear white and cream white
pOrcelains in low graceful shapes exceedingly
beautiful, and finished simply with wide curving
edges Of dead gold. the knobs and handles being
covered with solid mat" gliding An exceedingly
beautiful dinner set In creamy white and gold. the
dishes modelled after the curvlng shapes Of antique
silver IS finished with edges OF dead gold and the mono
gram of the the inside edge Of the dishes
done in fine lines OF yellow gliding. Decorated Eng
lish dinner sets in gold and WHITE or ooor cost Si2o
TO 5000. very beautiful set may be purchased for
$l75 Fine French porcelain sets begin at about the
price, but simply decorated set may be pur-
cludcs about 125 pieces, TO be completed by fancy
pieces while the English the price given may
include 175 pieces, English people having never given
up the entire dinner set. Beautiful sets OF English
earthen ware. iutod ard decorated with bourbon
spngs in royal blue and finished with heavy curving
edg,s of mat" gold SIS. In palmer china with
gold blue and white set Of 175 pieces. from tho
Royal Dresden factories I'm the favorite % webel'
pattern, may be purchased for 1925. This Is strong,
durable tableware and may be always matched should
any pieces be broken The same Is true OF NanNn
blue china, which is sold I'm sets at tho
same price Canton china coarser and heavier than
Nankn ware but liked by many families for every
day use is $50 set. Ladies' who wish To use tho
finest porcelans at dinner very frequently purchase
only soup and roast service of one kind of china
Such set comprises only fifty nine pieces. and may
be purchased at from $35 to $500 according TO tho
ware chosen The remainder Of the dinner service 10
then selected in courses of plates. Oyster plates arc
especially beautiful this year, in French china, tho
conventional sunken shells 10 receive the oysters
being arranged in border of fine gold fligree work,
a network of small blossoms. Soup plates are gen.
orally finished with border and some very slight
decoration In the centre leaving the sunken part OF
the plate to show perfection the color OF
and other clear soups. Roast plates are no longer
deliberately decorated There is a OF unfitness
in serving roast beef and other heavy meats on .
dantily painted picture. On the contrary wine
ielles and frozen puddings though lovely In crystal
are equally on a beautifully painted plate, and
fruit may be served the most elaborate Sevres
Royal Dresden plate the hostess can purchase. Some
Of the dessert plates from the Dresden factories
are finished with open work borders in white and
gold and Dubarry rose, yellow and royal blue or
kings blue centres decorated with small exquisite
landscapes after Vatican. Such plates quito
large, and tho three cOlors are used in set small
plates used for entrees and the very smallest
for the wafer-ke slices of bread and butter served
with oysters at dinners, or with tea at afternoon re-
ceptions. Berlin china, from the factory in which
the German Government Is at present
most directly interested. is exceedingly beautiful.
some of the dessert plates with open work borders
after those made for King Inus of Bavaria arc
exquisitely dainty. The flower designs of Dresden
china the motif for much of the Berlin porce-
la bat the patterns are suggested rather than copied
from the older faoory's works. Beautiful dark plates
shown from the MintOn works. decorated in clear
white enames with grain. butterflies classic forms
I'm slight relief. The fine gold ivyeaf border seen
the china bearing the arms of Napoleon Is repeated
in white and gold dinner sets and sets for soup and
Sets for creamed or stewed oysters are shown in
low graceful tureens m shaded olive borders deco.
edged with dead gold The handle of the turcen is
gilded oyster she'll and the deep shaped plates
TO receive the oysters decorated to match tho
tuTeel. Such sets S4j Where the hOusekeeper
silver oyster tureen sets of porcelain plates
may be purchased without the tureen of French
afier.dinner coffee cups are s3 so to S75. Square
bread plates with shaded borders decorated in metal
are among single pieces. Fine French china tea
cups range from $12 to 100. Covered pitchers known
as chocolate pitchers, but in the small sizes utilized
and Berlin porcelain. The prettiest pitchers are from
berlin in lovely shapes decorated I'm colors In small
classic landscapes Berlin pitchers cost from ~
and - up to Sl2. French covered pitchers begin
Thanks for information are due to Messrs. Gilman
COllamore a Co. and Frank Havland Il Co.