BEAUTIFUL FAKES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 216, 12 September 1925, Page 26

BEAUTIFUL FAKES.

Although the floating bowl still remains in high favour, there is a newer and even prettier method of making artistic flower containers for your rooms. Plain earthenware vessels, in numerous and quaint varieties, can be purchased cheaply, and with these beautiful effects may be achieved. Earthenware is amenable to many kinds of treatment, and amongst a cot lection of fascinating fruit and flower bowls exhibited recently at a home crafts exhibition, were many pieces that could be copied by the nimble-fingered woman. One deep round bowl, obviously meant to display the natural beauties of fresh fruit, was covered on the outside with black varnish, and on the inside with gold leaf paint. In its original form it cost next to nothing, but the veriest expert would never have guessed it without lifting and examining the bowl. Rosy apples, green grapes,, and two or three" oranges would convert it into a thing of sheer beauty at so little cost that it would be well worth the trouble expended. Big jugs, with a charming old English look about them, were transformed in various ways. One was painted apple green (one tube of artist's oil colour would prove an ample quantity), the handle and inside of the lip of the jug being a deep, warm orange colour. Long, trough-like vessels suggest themselves as homes for short-stemmed flowers, which are often more beautiful and sweeter smelling than the larger f«u'w ut for wiich can rarely find luitablo vaiei. ... --. / • - k