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 GRECIAN AND MODERN VILLA FUUNITLUE 104-9 1 883 " If with hot wine we insack us Say our name 's not Bacchus. Serve, serve up a dozen. But let it be frozen." Bacchus in Tutc. When such tables are used, if the party is not sufficiently numerous to finish a bottle before it has made twice the circuit of the table, it is, after the glasses are filled, set in a small vase or sarcophagus, which stands on the floor, and which sometimes contains ice, and at other times only water. Some, however, instead of a sarco- phagus placed on the floor, make use of what »V called an earthenware wine cooler placed on the table. This vessel, every body knows, is made of porous earth open at the top, and somewhat larger witliin than is sufficient to contain a quart decanter. The earthenware cooler is steeped in water for half an hour, previously to its being used ; after which, being emptied and set on the table, on a small mat or on a stand of any kind, the decanter of wine is placed in it. The greater the heat of the fire, the more rapid is the evaporation of the water which has been absorbed by the porous earth ; and consequently the greater the absorption, from the wine, of the heat which is required to carry on this evaporation. Earthen- ware wine-coolers of this description are manufac- tured by Peake of Tun- stall, of very elegant shapes, and are sold at moderate prices. Fig. 1889 is a Pem- broke table with two flaps ; the front is made to imitate two drawers ; but it falls down, and is supported by a quadrant, as in fig. 1890. 2086. Chairs. Figs. 1891 to 1894 are Designs which may be executed in mahogany, the legs being supposed to be in the same style as those of the tables, and the seats to be covered with morocco of the same colour as the curtains. The seats are 1889 1890 quilted, but, instead of fufls, small rings are used, covered with the same leather as the chair ; these rings being found to look as well as, and wear better than, tufts of silk ; at the same time that they do not harbour dust. Fig. 1895 is a dining-room chair, with a stuflfed back and scat covered with morocco, and tufted. It is considered an easy and elegant seat. 6 n'