The Glass Age

Southland Times, Issue 21000, 5 February 1930, Page 12

The Glass Age

This if) the 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 give character to a room, but a great deal in a paler shade is being used for dinner glasses, fruit salads, and so forth. This is almost exactly the colour of twelfth century window glass, as opposed to the deeper tone of the following hundred years. It has the same jewel-like effect, especially when it was used for fruit or flowers.

Very large vases are made of -the 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 be reds, these again recall the stained glass window, with its touches of bright blues and red. Finally, blue glass is freely used for toilette 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 small device in gold which may take the form of initials.