Silver for the dining room, selected periods
A 1912 trade-style guide to silverware published in Cambridge by the Gorham company for the dining room, drawn from Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Georgian periods, by John Swift Holbrook. Its plates are plain halftone photographs of silver on a pale ground, each captioned with the piece's name and period, showing the period styles of table silver in clean, evenly lit detail that a designer could use for ornamental motifs such as scrolled rims, acanthus-like handles and fluted bodies.
