TWENTIETH-CENTURY SILVER

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 143, 7 September 1927, Page 7

TWENTIETH-CENTURY SILVER

INTRODUCING IVORY IN DESIGN Designers and silver workers are anxioxs that silver produced in this centu:*y should be as original as that of any other period, and claim that BKdein silver equals antique examples in design and workmanship. fruit and salad bowls, condiment sets and silver ornaments, housewives h‘ r *ve plenty of opportunity for making li'oir tables beautiful with modern examples of these items. There was a feeling at the moment ftr the introduction of ivory with the silver. An example is a silver fruit bowl on a stand of ivory tusks on a silver base, i'ory, it will be remembered, is used &s handles to the silver porringer presented to Princess Elizabeth. This also a tiny ivory coronet on a little siiver gilt base, which forms the handle. An antique craft entering into the d“coraticn of modern silver is niello *°rk. This is a fine black tracing e ther in a conventional design of 51 rolls and flowers, or one which introduces ligures. Princess Mary lent a C: sket decorated in this way to the Modern silver has a less brilliant £.nd is more the true colour of '"‘• ver than was formerly the ease, and ■ does not tarnish so easily as the °mer examples.