JEWELLERY OF THE HOUSE

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 121, 22 May 1926, Page 15

JEWELLERY OF THE HOUSE

Beautiful glass is the jewellery of the house, and it should be as carefully chosen and treasured as the contents of milady 'g jewel case. Buby, amber, sapphire, and cut crystal are'all expressed into graceful shapes by the modern glass-maker to give v character and charm to our dining tables, our mantelpieces, and our dressing tables. The revived vcrgue of coloured glass is but another sign that we are gradually recapturing the exquisiteness of the eighteenth century, both in dress and decoration. For white wine, are the long-stemmed amber goblets, and for clarets and Burgundies are deep redtoned glasses which have pure gold in their composition to give that clear, rich colour. When not in use their coloured light-reflecting facets, are decorative adjuncts to the sideboard or the glass cabinet, and when a dinner party is given they increase the allure of the beverage they hold and at once stamp the hostess as a woman of taste and discernment. Tor the dining table or mantelpiece, are graceful, clear, white, branched candlesticks, delicately engraved. Fitted with coloured candles which repeat the colour-note of the room, they are ornament enough for the most fastidious mantelpiece, and would act as a warning to those offenders who regard the mantelpiece a3 a dumping-ground for souvenirs, ash-trays, and invitations which require an answer. The pert dolphin in glass is a novel centrepiece.