compotiers

Updated: May 13, 2025

But this is not the "sit down," elegant supper so worthy to be revived, with its courses and its etiquette and its brilliant conversation, which was the delight of our grandmothers. A large centre-piece of flowers, with fruit and candies in glass compotiers, and high forms of nougat, and other sugar devices, are suitable standards for an elegant supper-table.

Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood - Manners and Social Usages

This is a mere fanciful adjunct, and may be used or not; but it has a very pretty effect over an openwork, white table-cloth, with the silver tray of the ,pergne resting upon it. In many families there are silver ,pergnes which are heirlooms. These are now valued for old association's sake; as are the silver candlesticks and silver compotiers.

Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood - Manners and Social Usages

All the ornamentation of the dinner-table is high this winter high candlesticks, high vases, high glasses for the flowers, and tall glass compotiers. Salt-cellars are looking up; and a favorite device is a silver vase, about two inches high, with a shell for salt.

Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood - Manners and Social Usages