Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-12

(ORRECT taste DEGREES simplicity and
refinement in china decoration and
in all things that pertain to the ia
BILE The day when ferocious fishes greet
ed the diner from his fish plate, when the
fruit plates were adorned with painted
fruits wing in color and size with real
fruit, and when a small silver squirrel
with silver nut between his teeth perch
ed aloft on the silver nut dish, that day
is gone.
The newest and most exclusive Haviland
china shows only gold or gold and black
decoration. Sometimes, to be sure. there
| is much gold. On dinner plates selling at
| two and three hundred dollars, for in
stance. the gold border is more than two
inches wide and the gold is so heavy that
| it is almost an incrustation. After-dinner
coffee cups to go with these costly sets
the coffee cups alone are $50 dozen
are almost covered with gold, but they re-
! tain a look of simplicity, so delicately is
| the gold applied.
| Black when used in combination with
, gold in this fine china appears sometimes
/ in a solid band around the dishes-per-
haps quarter of an inch wide-edged on
, each side with a narrower band of plain
I gold or gold tracery.
| One set of china is bordered with black
and gold stripes only an eighth of an inch
wide which form band on cups. plates
and other dishes. This is edged with a
narrow. irregular gold design.
| For every set of white and gold china of
| Haviland design there is full set OF wine
/ and water glasses to match. The glasses
are of the finest crystal and are bordered
| with a gold band exactly like the band on
I . I. md Gpt n
| more restful. more artistic-or more appe-
| tizing for that matter-could he imagined
| in the way of dinner table than one
spread with white and gold china and
! glasses with corresponding border.
| One thing about the craze for gold CHINA
| which makes it appeal to the woman OF
| small means as well as to the woman OF
| wealth is that inexpensive china with a
simple band of gold about the edge is in
| perfect taste and of much more artistic
design and decoration than cheap flower
covered china Haviland plates at only a
| few dollars a dozen maintain the same
delicacy of design in a narrow gilt border
which distinguishes the plates sold for
! higher prices.
| One of the most attractive of the less
| expensive white and gold sets displays
! dull gilded handles to vegetable dishes,
/ coffee tea and chocolate pots. cups milk
/ and cream jugs, meat platters. sauce
dishes and bread plates. The plates and
SducefS OF TINS set, all the hat DISHES
which have no handles. show half a dozen
or so irregular patches of gold about the
| edge of each.
! Flowers when they do appear on the
finest French china seen sometimes in
the form of small almost conventionalZed
| roses between bands of gold: sometimes
! i'm more natural and irregular design bu;
! in faded gray and rose cOlors with much
gold applied around and between them.
| The woman who still clings to much
| Powered china. however can find il in
| abundance either in English or French
makes. Sets of French Powered china are
shown in which there is only narrow
| line of gold about the edge of each piece
| The flowers on this china are but faded
pastel.like prototypes of the florid and
| gorgeous blossoms which were in vogue
not so very long ago. They are scattered
| gracefully over the surface of plates. cups
and other dishes, we'll covering the entire
! surface.
, English lowered china is still much
used, but the flowers even on English
china have conformed themselves to the
prevailing call for delicacy of color and
design. To be sure some attractive bed
I room breakfast sets of English china are
still shown with border design of quaint