Life — May 8, 1902 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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hold a French coffee set, coffee pot, sugar bowl and cream pitcher. * 8 8 An ice-cream set in a brocaded silk box is a very serviceable gift as well as a beautiful one. A long tray of Martelé work, a dozen dainty plates, a large knife for serving and a dozen forks are in the sct—the fork being shaped like a spoon, except that the end of the bowl is notched, forming short prongs. A tall chocolate pot is of Athenic design, and has a tiny alcohol lamp beneath it. One wants chocolate jus to sce it, it has such a qualified air! Meat platters in all sizes, berry dishes and salad bowls are al- ways welcome gifts, and in both the Mar- telé and Athenic de- signs are exceedingly attractive, An asparagus set is essential to one's hap- piness in these days, and these are displayed in beautiful boxcs, The long dish contains a removable platter, thickly perforated, so that all Then there the water drains off the asparagus into the dish below. isa wide fork for serving, and a dozen fat little tongs. Novel dishes in silver and glass shown inc at Gorham’s yesterday are dishes of crystal glass held in a framework of silver, the same decoration being applied to both the silver and glass. For instance, the stems and leaves may appear on the silver and the flowers be carried out in the glass, or a scroll be commenced on the silver and finished in the glass. This de- sign may be had in ice-cream sets, berry dishes, cracker jars, platters and plates, Another novelty at Gorham’s is a centre- piece composed of four silver dishes some- what in the shape of scallop shells. When placed together, the flat edges touching, they are apparently one dish. If so large a centre. CHOCOLATE SET AND TRAY, ATHENIC. birds,” the eaying goes; but quite as truly ‘do fine linen and beautiful silver aid appetite, and what lovely woman docs not aspire to have her table as pleasing to the eye as its viands are pleasing to the palate! . * . “ Art is long and time is fleeting” is a poetic quota- tion which comes promptly to mind in treating the Gor- bam productions. Gifts in silver are not for to-day, nor tomorrow, but for all time. Among the most cate- fully prized possessions of our leading families are the silver utensils which have come down to them through generation after genera- tion. Some of these, the work of early artists, are even to-day things of exqui- site beauty, owing to the high quality of the art work be- stowed upon them. Being intrinsically artistic they have survived the mutations of fashion, and are things of beauty and joys forever to their fortunate possessors. The quality of the art, work bestowed on productions in silver and on silver in combination with glass bearing the Gorham hall-mark is such as to make them valuable heirlooms, to be handed down to lovers of the beautiful in future generations, and to be a constant joy to those who own them, or are permit ted to use them to-day. More than this, the mechanical workmanship and the quality of mate- tial used in the Gorham products is such as to give them absolute permanency under the most strenu- ous use, Having made up one’s miad to make a gift, the question of taste arises, So many persons make the mistake of giving something which is sim- ply what every one else gives that their gen- erosity is lost be- cause of lack of orig- inality. Every Gor- ham product pos- sesses a distinctive originality of its own and is made in such artistic spirit that it is quite safe to select anything from the Gorham stock and let it stand on its in- dividual merits as a selection in per- “Finefeath. fect taste. In fact, it is quite ers make fine ® reasonable proposi- tion to send what one wishes to spend for a gift to the Gorham office and let the con- cern use its own dis- cretion. An almost infinite ROSE-WATER EWER AND PLATEAC, MARTELE. variety in display and design renders impossible more than a mere suggestion in the way of illustration. We must go and see for our- selves. The artistic spirit is growing in America, and no where is the artistic spirit better shown than in the art of the silver-smith. The Connoisseur, PITCHER, ATHENIC. piece is not desired they can be placed separately or used singly — one or two as re. quired. BLACK COPPER SET, MARTELE comicbooks.com