A BLUE GLASS REVIVAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20420, 23 November 1929, Page 8 (Supplement)

A BLUE GLASS REVIVAL.

This is tho day of coloured glass, and there are as beautiful blues as ever there were. Not only has the very deep blue glass been revived, of which a few touches givo character to a room, but a great deal in paler shade is being used for dinner glasses, fruit salads, and so forth. This is almost exactly tho colour of twelfth century window glass, as opposed to the deeper tone of the following hundred years. It has tho same jewel-like effect, especially when it is used for fruit or flowers.

Very largo vases aro made of tlie lighter blue. Roses look charming in them, and so do such strong colour-contrasts as petunias and geraniums. For fruit salads, blue glass generally has a stem, and then a wide, shallow cup like that of a champagne glass. Filled with fruit, of which some at least must ho reds, these again recall the stained glass window, with its touches of bright blues and red. Finally, liluo glass is freely used for toiletlo sets, sometimes in a blue which is nearly, but not quite, navy, and sometimes in the paler tone. Now and again it is engraved with a smaller device in gold which may take the form of initials.