MESSERT-SERVICES SOB, THE GREAT zxnurrriorr.
Two china dessert-services, manufactured at Colebrook Dale for the 'Great FAttlibition, have been inspected, at Messrs. Daniel's, of New Bond I3lecet, by numerous visiters. Both are of elegant design and workman- ship.; but the chief interest attaches to the revival, in one, of the rose tint introduced about 1740, and known as the "Rose Dubarry,"—which Mr. Marryat pronounces to be the moat beautiful discovery in Sevres china. The excessive difficulty of its perfect production soon caused its disuse ; and the present sample is understood to be the first in which this tint, at once delicate and of .a deep creamy richness, is revived. A comparison of an old specimen with the dessert-service justifies the -manufacturers-also in claiming thearedit- of greater smoothness and -uniformity of colour.
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