China and the West

Norris, Frank. The pit : a story of Chicago. (New York, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page & Co., 1902).
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And then the little accessories that meant so much--the smell of violets, of good tobacco, of fragrant coffee; the gleaming damasks, china and silver of the breakfast table…
I heard of him in New York. And Page, our little, solemn Minerva of Dresden china?"
A long "Madeira" chair stood at the window which overlooked the park and lake, and near
to it a great round table of San Domingo mahogany, with tea things and almost diaphanous china…
In the "front library," where Laura entered first, were steel engravings of the style of the seventies, "whatnots" crowded with shells, Chinese coins, lacquer boxes, and the inevitable sawfish bill…