Life — May 8, 1902 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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For Lovers, and Lovers of Lovers. rival the roses in the florists’ shops, and orchids are ignored for buttercups and daisies—when the “young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love,” and happy maidens name the day —when the joyous springtime spirit gives life and zest, and all the world is young, it behooves you and me to gather up our and seek the silver shops, that we may make glad our Chloe and Amaryllis upon their wed- ding day. Marriages in the month of May are not looked upon with favor, but never June followed May, but romances began— or ended—at the altar. May is the month devoted to the trousseau, the selection of gifts, the bidding of guests and a little incidental love-making—should the bride-elect have a moment to spare. “We have not told each other how much we love each other since early afternoon,” laments the lamb io The Henrietta, and many a prospective bridegroom has a worse fate in the busy month preceding the wedding day. . 8 @ ie the merry month of May, when little nosegays of arbutus BLACK COFFEE #ET AND TRAY, ATHENIC. In the way of wedding gifts, per- haps the most important of all is the chest of table silver. Formerly these were rather bulky affairs, the silver spread out picce by piece in the trays to make a display. This took up a great deal of room. In the new chests shown at Gorham’s, deep pockets are built for each article, so that the arrangement is much more compact, and the chests are not half so enormous, A dozen spoons fitting into one another fill one pocket ; a dozen forks the next, and so on. In the simplest of these are two dozen knives of two sizes, two dozen forks, large and small; a dozen table spoons. a dozen soup spoons, a dozen tea spoons, a dozen coffee spoons and a carving set of five pieces, Larger chests with all manner of fancy forks, spoons, - 7 tongs and knives have one or more trays ac- cording to the assort- ment. -LIFE+ the pride and care of ‘its creator in every line and detail of orna- mentation, BOWL, ATHENIC. To this work the artist must Dring all the feeling for form, the sensitiveness for the slightest variation in the modeling, and the delicate touch thut belong to the sculptor. Each finished work of Martelé requires weeks of patient and dexterous manipu- lation. Graceful, sensuous curves mark the Martelé ware. Of the opposite character is the Athenic : austere, clean cut, each detail carried out elaborately. In the Martelé ware, decoration is subordinated to shape; in the Athenic designs, decoration is paramount. ‘A very lovely example of Martelé ware is a tall candelabra, superbly wrought and of a most graceful design. A soup tureen with orchid decoration is delightfully quaint, with its curving han- dles and peaked top, the standard it rests upon being equally exquisite. A long oval tray holding six pieces—a combined tea and coffee set—is Japanese in treatment, all the handles being in old ivory and the decoration of chrysanthemums. A tea kettle with legs curling in to hold an alcohol Jamp in place, a coffee pot, atea pot, cream pitcher, sugar bowl and basin are ane vo the pieces on this tray. Smaller trays CANDELABRA, MARTELE, Here the miniature soup spoons used 7 for bouillon, asparagus tongs and ice cream forks appear, while in the larger pieces a berry spoon, > salad set and cheese scoop will be found. These chests range in price from one hundred and twenty- five to two thousand dol- lars, the larger ones being very complete, containing some seven or eight hundred pieces In dishes, both the Martelé and the new Athenic designs seem to be in favor. While old English, Renaissance and Co- lonial patterns still have a large sale, these newer designs are § in the lead. S TUREEN AND STAND, MARTELE. vA Martelé is wholly hand-wrought, each article being beaten _ aetna into form from one piece of silver. Each piece of this ex- quisite ware is a unique artistic creation and bears witness to TEA SET AND KETTLE, MARTELE comicbooks.com