Then Papa does his best to make a reply and after he sits down we lift the cover of a lovely lacquer soup bowl and lift the chop sticks - Letters from China and Japan by John Dewey Alice Chipman Dewey

She ran to get from one of the corner shelves of the hall a tray of old lacquer which was part of the inheritance of the late Monsieur de la Bertelliere catching up at the same time a six sided crystal goblet a little tarnished gilt spoon an antique flask engraved with cupids all of which she put triumphantly on the corner of her cousin's chimney piece - Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac