Dresden china

The general aspect of the high ground above the river is that of a highly cultivated undulating country with prim and rather uninteresting-looking clusters of white-washed cottages gathered round the church-tower with its quaint bulbous top-hamper which, to my thinking, recalls the Dresden china

From a Terrace in Prague Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker

The banker, to avoid overloading the table with gold and silver, had completed the array of each service with porcelain of exquisite fragility in the style of Dresden china, which had cost more than the plate.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

Saint-Loup for the first time at Balbec, so fair complexioned, fashioned of so rare and precious a substance, gliding between the tables, his monocle fluttering in front of him, I had found in him an effeminate air which was certainly not suggested by what I was now learning about him, but sprang rather from the grace peculiar to the Guermantes, from the fineness of that Dresden china in which the Duchess too was moulded.

The Sweet Cheat Gone 2003

Dresden china, with rare vases, ivory ornaments, and toys and curiosities that sparkled at all points with gold, silver, and precious stones.

The Woman in White 2003

Here were some rare bits of Sevres and Dresden china, there some modern tile painting, here some old Roman jugs, jars, and vases; there the sweet face of a Madonna looks down, as if in pity, on a Greek dancing girl.

A Heart-Song of To-day Annie Gregg Savigny

She appeared so sweet and fragile, like a piece of Dresden china, incapable of base actions.

The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel William John Locke 1896

She is just like live Dresden china, smiling and dimpling; and the dear quaint maid who came with her, Martha, had made Hildegarde's whole winter provision of jellies and jams, because 'it wasn't likely Hildegarde would have time herself this first season, and it wasn't a thing you could trust to hired help in general.'

Peggy Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

She was such a dainty old lady, like a piece of Dresden china, with her pink cheeks and white curls and old-fashioned shoe-buckles; and she had such beautiful little hands, plump and soft as a baby's, which she seemed to regard with innocent pride, for she was always settling the lace ruffles round her wrists and pinching them up with careful fingers.

Uncle Max Rosa Nouchette Carey 1874

For the figure before him might have been made of Dresden china -- so daintily delicate and unique it was in color and arrangement.

Selected Stories of Bret Harte Bret Harte 1869

On my right hand and on my left, as I stood inside the door, were chiffoniers and little stands in buhl and marquetterie, 5 loaded with figures in Dresden china, with rare vases, ivory ornaments, and toys and curiosities that sparkled at all points with gold, silver, and precious stones.

The Woman in White 1860