NEW TABLE WARE

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 85, 13 April 1929, Page 18

NEW TABLE WARE

For a long time manufacturers tried to perfect a glass which would take the place of china for tea.sets and table services, and be capable of producing fine colour effects. Their success was only partial, because, although th<jy produced charming tints and touts, the glass proved too fragile for everyday use, and the casualties too costly. j Now comes a new ware which is a sort of cross between a fairly stout glass and a fine china (says an English exchange). It .is neither wholly opaque nor entirely transparent, and it is produced in shades both delicate and pronounced, in marbled, mottled effects, and in others that suggest some natural stone. You can wash it freely, and even "treat it rough," for it is peculiarly insensitive, and withstands quito a lot of hard usage without cracking or breaking. But it-must never bo washed with soda or washing powder. If you liko a highly polished surface, you rub it over with a chamois leather after washing. Ware such as. this is invaluable in the. colour-scheme room, where an' ordinary pattern in China would seem out of place. On a painted table in lemon-yellow a set of orchid mauve ware for the tea tray would be delightful, while on the dining table of grey sycamore a palo green fruit bowl holding bananas and purple grapes would look exquisite. For the bedroom, a complete dressing table set in orange set on glass-topped walnut, must strike a rich note, especially if the bedspread be of the same vivid tone.