GLEAMING GLASS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17230, 22 December 1923, Page 7 (Supplement)

GLEAMING GLASS.

Briug out your coloured gluts! Stored away in nearly every house, on u high, dusty shelf, or in the lumber room, are really beautifully coloured glass jugs, vases, bowls and bottles, Now is the time to bring them forth and let their wparkling colours bo it joy tc the eyo of tli© beholder. America started the present rag© for the lately despised coloured glnes, and cmr curio shops have dozens of American customers searching for good specimens. After all, what can be more alluring than a glowing amber glass bowl, filled with copper nnd yellow flowers, for a table decoration ; or a lurge .jug of royal blue glass on the corner of the mente’piece, making the only note of colour against grey walls? Is anything more attractive than a ruby glass tumbler to drink from, or a grass-green finger-bowl ? Some years ago, a small nephew presented mo with a large purple glass mug, bought, I believe, at same sale of second-hand furniture. At the time, I was very dubious about the gift, but it now has the place of honour on the corner of my writing-table. Coloured glass can be obtained in a variety of lovely colours, and in all sorts of pleasing shapes. long, slender scent bottles, and circular bowls being acme of th« most fascinating. Collecting coloured glass is a most interesting hobby, and a row of vases, tnugs and bottles from the collection, placed quite indiscriminately on a sideboard or shelf, makes a lovely note of colour, and tones with any room—no matter what the colour scheme may j be. GR ACE BOOTH.