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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 17020, 17 December 1920, Page 2

glowing, beautiful things. CHRISTMAS GIFTS AT THE ORIENTAL All'lS. It is to stop suddenly into a world of glowing beaut it ul things, redolent at the magic and mystery ot Eastern lands, to visit the Oriental Arts in the Kovql Exchange Buildings- Here are to'bo seen all thoso masterpieces of Oriental work whicli are at once the delight and the despair of the occidental craftsman. Gold damascene, featsuma, and quaintly wrought brasses cannot help but call up such, storied places of romance as Cathay and Ispahan, Nippon and Kashmir. They are names to conjure with, and their artistic products of which the Oriental Aits is a present making a notable display, are the very things for the Christmas gift that must be unusual as well as artistic. Gold damascene cigarette cases make a special appeal, by reason of their exquisite, workmanship. S» do brass trays and incense jars and bowls, gold lacquer trays and howls, cigarette holders and tobacco jars wrought of pure ivory. Satsuma and Cloisonne "vases, and dozens of the other- things displayed in tliis shop of beautiful things. There aro some exquisite vases in bronze carrying a delicate design in beaten silver which would make a highly desirable adjunct to any drawingroom. Tapestry pieces and screens embroidered subtly in rich coloured silks also strike the note of the unusual in Christmas giving. Also exhibited aro some lovely example,? of the new Clorsonno pottery, which show a workmanship that is almost uncanny, while of cliina cups and saucers, liberty ware, and pottery of many different manufactures there is an apparently unending variety. It is easily recognisable that nothing stocked by the Oriental Arts is meretricious, for it is almost impossible to iind among the goods shown by this company an article that is not a masterpiece in its own way, or that does not bear the sienature of the artist who created it. The search for Christmas gifts must ne"cssa!ri]y end with a visit to the Oriental .Arts, for it ; is inmossiblo to imagine anything more calculated to deliclit than an example of Eastern work chosen from the Inrcre and varied stocks held by this company. 6

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