The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-04

with few small sea shells. Every
 make of fine china is represented
 among her Majesty's tea services bu
 the pride of them all is one of the mos ' delicate Sevres. with a laret-coloret ground on which are heads in medal
 lions and landscapes in panels. A re.
 markable modern afternoon tea set Is o the wonderful Burmese china, brought
 out few years ago when Burma was
 opened up. It is a sort of pale primrose
 color shading to pink at the edges, much
 decorated with gold, and so thin that il
 seems like inviting disaster when hot
 tea is poured into the cups.
 Occasionally the queen lent very valu
 able little specimens of the noted Sevres
 pate tendre, or soft paste, to ceramic
 exhibitions. A beautiful soup basin
 With a cover in pate dure, standing
 about four and one-half inches high
 has a green groundwork and is embel-
 liShed With finely painted flowers and
 much gliding, and this is great treas
 ure. A splendid Sevres vase with a
 cover has the celebrated Rose du Barri
 ground and two oval medallions, one
 on each side One of them contains a flower painting and the other two cher
 ubs resting on clouds and playing with
 white doves. It stands fourteen and
 one-half inches high, and the knob of the cover is a delicately nodded flower.
 Her Majesty also owned one of the cu- rious old Sevres vaisseaux, mat with
 birds painted on the body. It is in the collection at Buckingham Palace, and has several times been lent to Minton's that they might copy it. The late Bar on Rothschild had another vaisseaux at Waddesdon.
 l Berlin china was originally made in that city in 1751, and the secret, like that of the Furstenberg porcelain, was ob- tained from workmen al Mayence and Hochst Frederick the Great was it's chief patron, and a great deal of china was turned out. The queen had a coffee pot of 1t with beautiful blue neck and cover, the body being painted with pink flowers that must have been modelled from lilac, but are grouped with rose leaves
 ORIENTAL SPECIMENS. At Buckingham Palace there is an apartment called the Bow Library, which contains one of the finest colec- tions of Sevres in the world. There also is an immense Chinese plaque or trophy taken as loot from a palace in Pekin during one of the Chinese wars early in her Majesty's reign. It is said that great Chinese noble who was\ very anxious to see Buckingham Palace once recognized and identified it with some show of dlspleasure. Two im- mense rectangular Oriental vases, over four feet high, stand on the floor of one of the rooms, and have the compara- lively narrow medallioned neeks and lids with which cheap modern Kaga specimens have made us all familiar They are orf rich dark blue, pencil gilt, and the small medalllons and large panels are all white and most graceful ly painted with flowers, and in one cen tral panel with the bit of wall indica- ted in the common willow pattern. A couple of large vases of the tear bottle shape are also of this rich blue, trel- lised with gold, and with white panels on the round part painted with flowers. There are also some fine examples of green cracked celadon, the old eastern kind, in which pale sea green color was mixed with the paste before firing, and very different from any colorings put in the surface afterward
 The late queen had some handsome wedgwood, notably set of large cache pots, which were first used at the we'd ding breakfast table at Osborne when Princess Beatrice was married. There was some lovely china of English make among the Jubilee offerings in 1887, which may be seen in the corridor devo- ted to them at Windsor castle. One is a pair of Worcester vases with covers, which came from the ladies of the Faithful City" Their sisters of Der by offered a pair of tall covered vases with medallions containing heads em-' blematic of Poetry, Painting, Sculpture and Music; and the queen was very much pleased with great plaque of | Grown Derby adorned with her own portrait, and with quotation from one of the late Prince Consorts saspeeches by | way of legend, Among these china tro- phies is vase and cover of Danish DOT ,elain, presented by the King of Den- mark. The groundwork is palest prm rose, with swans and other figures raised on it in white.