This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... handle, in which case there was apt to be a catch projecting downward (Fig. 7, A) to hold the strainer in place at the side of the bowl. The perforations (Fig. 7, B) were in decorative, and usually geometrical, patterns. Syphons And Funnels were made in silver (v. plate illustration) for the convenience of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... handle, in which case there was apt to be a catch projecting downward (Fig. 7, A) to hold the strainer in place at the side of the bowl. The perforations (Fig. 7, B) were in decorative, and usually geometrical, patterns. Syphons And Funnels were made in silver (v. plate illustration) for the convenience of householders in a Via. 7. Side view of Strainer by Benjamin Halstead, Philadelphia, 1783, showing catch; B, Top view of same Strainer. C. Hartman Kuhn Collection. Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art. day when heads of families had regard enough for their port and Madeira to be punctilious about handling it themselves and before the appreciation of those potables had been lessened by cocktails, highballs and their plebeian congeners. Bowls, such as those shown in Key II, 11; Key V, 13 and 14, and in the plate illustrations, besides being used for sugar or for tea slops, fulfilled a variety of other uses. Their contour affinities have already been noted. Tea-caddies Ok Canisters, towards the latter part of the eighteenth century, were made to accompany the silver tea services. Their shape was derived from the porcelain tea-caddies of the period while the details of form and decoration corresponded with the other articles they were intended to accompany. They were not numerous, as Oriental lacquer boxes or wooden caddies, made in Hepplewhite or Sheraton designs to accord with the knife boxes and sideboards of the time, and containing two or more pewter compartments, were in far more general use. Flagons were much the same as tankards in point of contour, only taller and narrower in proportion, and, while sometimes probably employed domestically for filling tankards, were more commonly of ecclesiastical use and always retained their...
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Very good. 232 illustartions. Thick 8vo, pictorial yellow cloth. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1916. First Edition. Very good (+). An informative and practical guide covering glass, metal, pottery, painting, wood and stone carving, needlework, etc., with a chapter on early lace by Mabel F. Bainbridge.
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