electroplated

Updated: May 4, 2025

The walls of the cabinet were red, with a gold design. On the table, among the lighted candelabra, two white, tarred necks of bottles stuck up out of an electroplated vase, which had sweated from the cold, and the light in a tenuous gold played in the shallow goblets of wine.

A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin - Yama: the pit