The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-04

edges, much decorated with gold, ana so
thin that it 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 ex-
hibitions. A beautiful soup basin, with
cover in pate dure, standing about four
and one-half inches high, ernbellished
with finely painted flowers and much gid
ing, and this is a. great treasure.
splendid Sevres vase with cover has the
celebrated Rose du BARR ground and two
oval medallions, one on each side. One
of them contains flower painting and the
other two cherubs resting on clouds and
playing with white doves. 1t stands four
teen and one-half inches high and the
knob of the cover Is a delicately mould
ed flower. Her Majesty also owned one
of the curious old Sevres vaisseaux a
mat with birds painted on the body 1t
is in the collection at Buckingham Pal
ace. and has several times been lent to
Minton's that they might copy 1t. The
late Baron Rothschild had another vais-
seaux at Warresdon.
Berlin china was originally made in that
city in 1861, and the secret, like that of
the Furstenberg porcelain, was obtained
from workmen at Mayenee and Hochst.
Frederick the Great was its chief patron,
and great deal of china was turned out.
The Queen had coffee pot of it with a
beautiful blue neck and cover, the body
being painted with pink flowers that
must have been moulded 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 collections of
Sevres in the world. There also is an
immense Chinese plaque or trophy taken
as loot from palace in Pekin during one
of the Chinese wars early in Her Males
tvs reign. 1t is said that great Chi
nese noble who was very anxious to see
Buckingham Palace once recognized and
and identified lit with some show of dis
pleasure. Two immense rectangular ORR
entail vases, over four feet high, stand
on the floor OF one of the rooms, and
have the comparatively narrow medal
lioned necks and lids with which cheap
modern Kaga specimens have made us
all familiar. They are of rich dark blue,
pencil gilt, and the small medallions and
large panels are all white and most grace
fully painted with flowers, and in one
central panel With the bit of wall indi-
Gated in the common willow pattern. A
couple of large vases of the tear-bottle
shape are also of this rich blue treIlised
with gold, and with white panels on the
rOund part painted with mowers.
There are also some fine examples
of green cracked eeladon, the. old
| Eastern kind, in which pale sea-green
! color was mixed with. the paste before
\ firing, and very different from any color
| ings put on the surface afterward.
| The late Queen had some handsome
modern Wedgwood, notably set of large
| cache pots, which were first used al
the wedding 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 de-
| voted to them at Windsor Castle. One Is
a pair of Worcester vases with covers,
which came from thc1adies of the Faith
full City" Their sisters of Derby offered
a pair of tail covered vases with medal
lions containing heads emblematic of poe
ry, painting, sculpture and music; and the
Queen was very much pleased with a
great plaque OF Crown Derby adorned
with her own portrait, and with quota
ton from one of thee late Prince Con-
| sorts speeches by way of legend. Among
| these china trophies is a vase and cover
of Danish porcelain, presented by the
King of Denmark. The groundwork is
palest primrose, with swans and other
figures raised on 1t in white.