Household elegancies : suggestions in household art and tasteful home decorations (1876)
Jones, C. S., Mrs, Williams, Henry T · New York : H. T. Williams · leaf 288
at the dull end, so that it can be set upon end, or when given as a present, filled with candy or some valuable article,while it may be closed with a cork decorated with ribbon bows. Such eggswhich have the not very poetic but certainly useful mission of helping in thedarning of stockings, are… … Fig. 32. Easter-Egg of China. Fig. 33. Easter-Egg witli Etching. BOILED EASTEE-EGG, WITH ETCHING. A very pretty Easter gift is a boiled colored egg, on which, as on colored porce-lain, the most various designs, monograms, pictures and the like, may be etchedwith a fine penknife. As hard-boiled eggs…
Decoration and ornament
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