The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-16

dinners. has SCI which IS afiame with scar
let and gold and blue. Its Turkish in taste.
and might seem TO be the choice of a theat-
rical advance agent, as indeed its owner is
il the eagernes with which she heralds
social lions. When you come TO coffee the
whole inside of your cup is heavily gilded
and You feel as if you were pouring down
m 'lton gold.
4 good deal of the Carlsbad ware is in re-
| coco style picked out with gold. Mrs.
Frances HOdgson Burnett has set of tais
which is quite pretty.
a fine set of Haviland ware has been ex-
hlbited recently. 1t is a reproduction of
Haviland's exhibit at the Paris exposition
The color effects are in gold AMI in the deep
rich "Dlfour" blue. In the blue delicate
patterns are drawn in thin gold lines. and
the whole effect is one of extreme richness.
A Haviiand set rather novel in design well
represents the prevailing mode The tureens
and other deep dishes are perfectly round,
with the handles in deep gold. The deco
lions are fine tracings of vines in gold. The
platters have round corners with the edges
rolled partially over. The sides are slightly
concave and also rolled at the edges The
price of the set is $500.
Wedgwood used to call his ware queens
ware in return for the protection given
him by the Queen of England, and hun
dreds and thousands of queens Of the house
hold have been his Datro ieSses also. There
IS not large quantity of Wedgwood ware
In the market now, but what there Is is ex-
cellent
Mrs. Wanamaker has an exquisite little
deleuner set IN Royal Worcester on a re-
volvIng tray which has been the envy of
every woman who has had a chance to note
the mellownesS of TINT soft as ivory, the
quletness and chastity of the decorations
and abe beauty of outlines. The South
Kenslngton museum and the school of
decorative art have educated the artists
who turn out the Royal Worcester and
other English porceliins. Mrs. Abram
Hewitt and Mrs. Whitney have some of the
best Worcester ware in the country. Mrs.
Whitney has also good deal of Sevres and
Dresden.
The Crown Derby ware is brilliant in
coloring and oriental looking Some of it
is purer in outline than any shapes that
ever came from Egypt or Persia. The
| Mnton aud Doulton and other fac English
wares are initiated almost as extensively as
the German. Spode ware is coming to be
very fashionable.
People who really know anything about
china say that the color effects and artistic
| feeling of the lockwood ware, produced at
the Lockwood pottery in Cincinnati estab-
llshed by Mrs. Storer are not surpassed
| anywhere; but people who are not connois-
seurs pin their faith only to that which is
importer anu mas European name. The
Trenton potteries also are sending out beau
tiful things IN designs of old Irish Belleek
ware.
The costliest dinner set recently made in
this country was produced by New York
firm after design from the dinner service
OF the Emperor William. Its cost was
$50, 200.
There are women who collect the rare
pottery and porcelains OF ancient China
and Japan, who delight in OK blood vases
and apple green crackle" and pink
souti1e," but these delights are for the mon
eyed few. There are many who cling to
the dainty dishes or the little tea caddys of
grandmother or great aunt. the blue plate
which was made in commemoration of
LafayetteS visit to America, the cup from
which some revolutionary hero drank on
his visit to a country farmhouse. "EhW
says the Scotch servant, so think of the
dear Teddy herself being gone-gone and
her bits of crock still to the fore!" There's
human interest about old china.
This was my mother's," says the house
wife, wiping her harlequin teacups, as she
comes to one in white with rim of gold,
ihls was your greatgrandmother's, as
she lifts one qupint and cramped in shape,
decorated In dull pink and blue. The
only momento we have Of her, she never
forgave your grandmother and grandfather
because they ran away and were married"
Mrs. M. Louise Thomas has very interest
ing collection of old colonial china.
ELIZA PUTNAM HEATON.