Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31
CUT GLASS RISING
THE HEIGHT AND THE PRICE AID
VANCING.
Beautiful Centerpieces in Glass Deco.
rated With Gold-The Tornado
Pattern.


Written for The Evening Star
The browning beauty of dinner table
covered with heavy lace and shining with
polished silver is its sparkling glassware.
and table decorations this year tend decid-
eddy toward a profusion of glass rather
than silver. Candelabra vases, compotiers
end handles for servers. done in cut glass,
add great brilliancy to the table and are
having particular vogue. The long-popu-
lar fiat effects have given place to tall slen-
der stemmed dishes. standing well up from
the table, both for centerpieces and COM
potiers, with bowls which are either very
shallow or deeply curving like a hemis-
phere. Goblets, which are indispensable to
a well-dressed table, show the bell flare,
while the drinking glass of the hour is I'M
usually tall, with a gradual widening
toward the top. Pitchers are long and
slender, with a lily-leaf mouth. and to pro-
duce the effect of height decanters have
elongated necks and acknowledged stop
pers.
Cut glass of such massive beauty as the
new importations in French rock crystal
mas not been seen in many a year De-
signs OF fruit in natural size seem to be
carved into inch-deep glass, and. looking
INSIDE dish, the fruit appears ready to
PLUCK one deep. rounding bowl shows a
large bunch of plump grapes and another
quite as handsome brace of pears with
leaves, or a cluster of luscious big straw
berries. On smaller pieces the designs are
extremely delicate and closely interviewer.
The Tornado Pattern.
In American cut glass the tornado pat
tern, of which artificial light makes a gilt
tering pin wheel, and the chrysanthemum
pattern are in greatest favor this year.
Huge punch bowls, very closely cut and
with jagged rim in star design, are set on
a pedestal four feet high. The new rose
bowl stands on a shapey pedestal brilliant
with the tornado design, and rises three
feet above the table. In like manner celery
boats and fiat bonbon dishes. with rolling
sides, are raised from the table by pedes-
tails.
A handsome salad set cut in crystal de-
sign showed very large fiat plate for the
with narrow rolling brim for the salad
and cut-glass handles, for the serving fork
and spoon.
Narrow gold bands are a delicate and
popular decoration for plain, clear glass.
The more elaborate wreath and flower de-
signs in gold give the effect of a golden
table service. and have become of late re-
markedly reasonable in price.
An enormous centerpiece of this ware had
six long narrow stands of glass, curving
slightly to form a circle about a tall fat
dish on which stood six short vases and one
tall slender vase topped by rose bowl. On
each of the stands were three vases two
and a half and three inches high, for hold
ing a single flower many short-stemmcd
flowers, and every one of the thirty-two
pieces was eXquisitely set off by garlands
of tiny roses in gold.
A chocolate set with very tall straight
cylindrical pitcher and a dozen tall
straight glasses. shows narrow gold band
about five inches from the top of each
piece, separated at intervals by tiny gold
water lilies Saucers for almonds in this
gold-decorated glass are coffee cup size
with a deep globe-iike curve and three tiny
gold knobs for feet