PEARL LAMP BOWLS

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 112, 5 February 1931, Page 5

PEARL LAMP BOWLS

Cleopatra once created a great stir by tossing her largest pearl into a cUP o vinegar to show how little store she se on such a trifle. , , I wonder what size that pearl • As large as a pea, perhaps; not larger than a marble, at any rate. _ 1 Since those days pearliness has a pered, and now we think nothin S sho f u ]d necklace of pearls—or perhaps I say "pearlies”—as large as marbles ,_»<« to mention that we can have pearly bowls the size of grape fruit, o larger if we life, and of eyery tint im These bl lnmps are so c J‘ arD^uld th have don’t think even Cleopatra wouldbase had the heart to order a doso of vlne„ar for them. In purest pearl-white, sll« I grey, lilac or golden-yellow, with Bttle crystalline Chinese-lint. shades to they would be admirable lamps. But, of course, you would sim ply-have to have your room decorated in silken richness to match the delicat ly-tinted, pearly lustre of the lamp bowl ,