The morning news., 1899-12-03

must have2 A faslionahle woman wears
pair OF gloves but once. The ordinary
glove costs 81 or $St q pair, ana the long
g,ove for evening wear from 81 70 SO
You can see that the number must be
| large. As for hats. a woman of fashion
would need twenty or thirty l suppose.
The price would be from so TO SlOO ench
or mere. according 40 her fancy"
So even If Mrs. O'Neill has $50 pairs of
gloves and fifty or sixty gowns. as her
creditors lawyers assert, she is not over
stocked according 10 "Gismonda." who
herself.
No French ware equals in value the
y. costly and beautiful Sevres porcelains The
Rothschilds, the queen and Lord Dudley
own between them most of the finest
Sevres ware in England.
The most famous Of Lord Dudley's
Sevres. says writer in the Chicago
Chronicle, is a garnitline de chemiuee, for
which he gave $4,000; it is said that a
housemaid broke one of the pieces the day
after its arrival at Dudley House. Lord
Dudley few years ago had a sale Of
some of his porcelains.
The collection of Pompadour and Du-
barry Sevres, as it is sometimes styled
in the possession of Queen Victoria, has
been valued by experts at much over
Il
number of pieces; these are displayed at
Windsor Castle in the long gallery, where
Her Majesty usually receives her guests
after dinner. One and a half million dol
lars Is said to be the value of the Queens
porcelain.
The value of old. Sevres porcelain is
enhanced by the fact that ever since the
foundation of the factory an exact regis
ter has been kept of all sales Probably
q iNsAc calt Ia kat
In IT'S TO the Empress Catherine of Rus
sia, who paid for a service of 75l pieces
a sum of SS0,00o, which is equivalent 20
100000 at the present day. One hundred
and sixty pieces of this service were stol-
en- during confagration of the palace and
found their way to England, where they
Were purchased by the famous collector
Beckford. But with few exceptions they
We're repurchased by Emperor Nicholas
and conveyed back to Russie just before
the outbreak of the Crimean war.
Prices that appear absolutely prepos-
ferrous are given for Sevres china of the
pompadour' period, which dates from
1853 to 1868; for that of the Louis XII
period" which dates from 1863 to 1886. and
for that of the Louis XVI epoch" dating
from 1856 to 1890.
1t is nothing-s500 or $1,000 apiece for a
Sevres cup and saucer or a small nail
or plate-that is nothing to a Rothschild
or a royalty.
The finest collection of Sevres in Amer
lea belonged to Governor Lyon of Idaho
1t was sold at his death and one vase
was purchased by Mrs. Ayres of New
York for IS 1000.
A New York lady, Mrs. Arthur NJ
Dodge, has some Sevres plate similar TO
the famous Chanteau plates of Fontain-
beu. She has also some delightful ex-
ampes of the old English ware Spode
y1r1fe woo fNga1rr 4 q
and ducal families, and was a great lux
ury. Cabbage roses is a favorite pattern
of the Sponde ware, or some set pat
tern of deep blue. Mrs. Dodge has a
tete-a-tete tea service of Sponde decor
alton with the cabbage roses. She has
some Nyon cups and saucers. This ware
| is marked with a fish because the factory
is situated on Lake Geneva.
Mrs. Alfred Duane Pell Is a collector
of fine china, and several specimens cf
st. Petersburg ware are treasured by her
This is the only European factory which
never sells piece of china, as everything
manufactured is reserved by the Gar and
Czarina for royal presents. II was found
ed by the Empress Catherine. Some Of
Mrs. PelPs Russian porcelain Is Of late
date, notably plate made in 1881. Other
treasures are copies of the Prince Of
Wales Minton service, in use on his royal
yacht Osborne. They bear naval designs
and the three feathers and motto. Mrs
Pell also has copies in Minton of Queen
Vietoria's buckingham palace service
The decorations are the rose, shamrock
and thistle; a crown and the initials V. r.
within a wreath of roses.
Many multimlllionaires prize Minton
ware to the extent of paying $2,729 apiece
for plates A plate of plain gold costs just
about as much. For $l36.50 one can buy a
crown derby plate which will answer. ev-
eryday purposes.
Mrs. Bradley Martin eats her Monday
dinner from plates costing somewhere
about $l75 each of course, she has better
porcelain than this; indeed, she possesses
large cabinets of china of great historical
value.