Dresser, Christopher · London : and New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter, & Galpin · leaf 142
en look well if portions are covered; and these remarks will apply equally to all kinds of plates, whether intended for use at dinner or dessert. No plate should have a landscape painted upon it, nor a figure, nor a group of flowers. Whatever has a right and wrong way upwards is inappropriate in… … the utmost cleanliness, yet to a cream tint there can be no objection. I should, however, prefer white plates, witli a rather deep blue, Indian red, maroon, or brown pattern upon them, and a pale hull' table-cloth for them to rest upon. In the case of cups and saucers the treatment should be…
Decoration and ornament
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