Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-12
THIN TABLE CRYSTAL
Bell Shaped Charles II Claret
Glasses.
JACOBITE GOBLETS
CHAMPAGNE FOAMS IN TALL
VENETIAN.
They Have Exquisite Color and
Are of Extreme
Fragility.
GOBLETS


Luxurious novelties in glass are among
| the attractions in table furnishings that
| hcstesses now put forth A few years ago
| the tendency was to use sumptuous sets of
weighty and dazzling cut crystal, where
today exceedingly fragile specimens of the
real or the copied antique and Venetian are
prime favorites Sets of real antique table
glass are almost as rare as the dodo, and
most of those that do exist are badly brok-
en- sets locked up in museums. Neverthe-
less good copies of beautiful things are al
ways to be had, and the glass manufactur-
| ers of Great Britain have turned a pretty
| penny by selling sets of Queen Anne and
George III glass to rich Americans.
| At first a pretty legend was told by bric-a-
| brac dealers, who first imported these sets,
| to the effect that this glass was the real
| thing and worth its weight in gold.
The conscience of the bric-a-brac dealer
| is as hard as nails, and in the beginning
| of the glass collecting fad he would cheer
| fully receive commissions from his patrons
t. hunt up a set of fine old JacObean spirit
glasses or a superb set of 1850 Bristol wine
goblets. 1t was the wholesale glass inn
porter who put an end to this, and nothing
| is easier and more surely welcome to come
| by as wedding gift than fine set of this
| tie engraved wine glasses, copied from those
| used in the time of the Stuart pretender.
| Odd Sets Are the Fashion.
Heretofore the housekeeper who set her
self up in crystal bought a huge and COM
plete equipment for her table in the best
| American cut, which for cut glass, is the
| best in the world. She selected the cut
| pattern that pleased her most, and every
| thing, from finger bowl to the crystal ham
dies of her salad fork and spoon, We're cut
| on this design. Nowadays the fashion is
| to serve different type of glass with each
| course at dinner. and thereby display the
! varying beauties Of shape, coloring and en-
| craving of ones lavish store. Some hos
! tesses, who do not go quite to these lengths,
| have adopted different sets of glass to
match their various sets of china, and new
| and very fashionable painted glass for dinner
| narties has come recently into use The
crystal is very bright and thin. and adorn-
| ed with a green, red or blue band at the
| edge of the bowl and on the edge of the
| foot, and the owners initial and some her
| aIdic device is painted on the side of every
piece.
| This is highly ornamental, but care must
| be taken not to use red-banded glass with
| a blue china service else there will be
| anarchy in the carefully elaborated decor
| alton of the table. Furthermore, it is not
| considered tasteful, to say the least, to
| use one set of glass straight through a
| meal. A red or blue or green banded set
| may consist of water tumblers, claretS,
| hooks and finger bowls, but for champagne
| the proper thing is a set of fragile and
| elaborate Venice and Murano vases, as they
/ are called In a well chosen dozen of We
| netian champagne vases no two patterns
| or colorS should match, and by the variety
and the conspicuous height of the Italian
! glasses great splendor is lent a weil-set
dinner table.
! How to Pour Wine.
When, at very smart dinner party, all
| the glasses are mixed, the claret is poured
into beautiful bell-shaped Charles II
| glasses, engraved with a Stuart rose;
| Burgundy is poured in drawn bowl Bristol
glass; showing an Opaque white glass rib
| bon in the stem, and the bowl richly carved
| with grape leaves and clusters; then the
| hook comes in stunning Jacobite goblets,
exquisitely engraved with a thistle or a
| rose and two buds on a single branch sup
posed to be emblematic of the depoSed Stu
| art king and the two pretenders.
All of this makes for beauty on the
| table, and so much store does the modern
| hostess set by her glass collections that it
| is the custom in houses where great wealth
and rich glass collections are enjoyed to
have a special glass washer in every even
/ ing after dinner to clean and polish the
| crystal and lock 1t UP in its glass and
velvet cupboards. This is because some
| of the millionaires do possess real antique
| glass and many of them have sets that
| have been especially and most extensively
| copied for them aboard. One set of Charles
| II beer glasses engraved with bar
ley ears and clusters of hops and a fine
dozen of Jacobite spirit glasses were made
! on special order in England for rich
| American. and cost far into the thousands.
| To keep this glass at its best it must be
washed with a special soap, in water at a
| fixed temperature, and then rubbed dry
| with linen and finally with leather on
which white powder Is sprinkled.
| The average servant Is neither willing,
skillful nor sufficiently trustworthy for this