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Updated: June 23, 2025
Then, there are the silk-weavers and silversmiths, whose work is probably the best of its kind produced in any country, and in Thayetmu and Rangoon I have seen silver-work produced which, in my opinion, is unequalled for beauty of design or excellence of workmanship.
The old spire which served as a sea-mark for the fishermen, and was kept regularly white-washed that it might be the more conspicuous glittered in the morning sunshine from base to summit, as though matching its whiteness against that of the snow-laden elms: and in this frame of pure silver-work, burning without noise and with scarcely any smoke this by reason of the excessive dryness of the woodwork the church stood one glowing vault of fire.
Cohen, wishing to make amends for the check on his customer's natural desire to know more of him and his. "But you understand silver-work, I see." "A little," said Deronda, taking up the clasps a moment and laying them down again.
One of my cache-peignes is of filigrane silver-work, with drops falling from it, real diamonds." "What d'ye call a cache-peigne?" asked Jan. "Don't you know? An ornament for the hair, that you put on to hide the comb behind. Combs are coming into fashion. Will you come up and see the things, Jan?" "Not I! What do I care for lace and bonnets?" ungallantly answered Jan.
A dainty samovar, a tiny tea-pot, a spirit-lamp and the rest, all in the wonderful silver-work of the Slavonski Bazaar in Moscow. "You see," she said with a smile, for she always smiled on men, "I have obeyed your orders." Steinmetz bowed gravely. He was one of the few men who could see that smile and be strong. He closed the door carefully behind him.
The work may be of the fourth century B.C., the doe's head being much finer than the figures, which are possibly a later addition. The only similar piece of silver-work known is the bull's-head rhyton in the Hermitage Collection, St. Petersburg.
Add a dollar for the silversmith's labor; and also add whatever value the turquoise happens to be; and you have the price for which true Navajo silver-work can be bought out on the Reserve. Among the Navajos, the women weave the blankets and baskets; among the Moki, the men, while the women are the great pottery makers.
There are many entirely for the sale of Western things, and others for the things of the country the beautiful embroideries and silks, and silver-work and lacquer-work and carving, which you know so well by sight at home, for it is sent over in large quantities now, and anyone can buy it in London as cheaply as here.
The Mexican historian Ixtlilxochitl says the throne of gold in the palace of Tezcuco was inlaid with turquoises and other precious stones that a human skull in front of it was crowned with an immense emerald of a pyramidal form. The great standard of the republic of Tlascala was richly ornamented with emeralds and silver-work.
The moon behind him, as he stepped, was floating up from the horizon, a great bubble of glory, whitening the tops of the whole dark landscape, throwing out in glittering points, like frosted silver-work, the rimy, dewy tracery of budding boughs, studding each twig with gems, and pouring light into the high hollow heaven, like vast draughts shed crystal-clear from some shining drinking-horn.
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