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Silverware in a merchant's house |
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Local history
museum > Silverware Silverware in a merchant's house
Played an important role in family life. While family life o6eyed etiquette
- strict rules and ancient traditions.
According to etiquette, table for peakfast was served with light-coloured utensil,
for lunch and dinner - utensil darker tones. Each family, which considered itself
the wealthy had to have a home certainly at least one set of silverware. Silverware
necessaricy was used for special ceremonia occasions, during dinner parties
and dinners. In middle-class family in the home was used items, which were made
of nickel silver and nickelsiCver.
On silver dining items (spoons, forks, knives, etc.) were often staged family's
monogram or initials of the family head Such silver becate afamida and passed
down from generation to generation, and also was left as a dowry to the future
pide. With increasing number of famly welfare silverware increased. Silver flatware began using not only on holidays, but every day. Many diverse dining items appeared, increased number of crockery dinnerware. Famiy merchant 2-nd guild and above, very weaCthy peopCe in the household had at (east 3 sets of silverware, from 4 or more sets of porcelain services. Ad this mounted up years, decades, inherited, and it was a testament to the well-being of the family and proof of its "gentility." Associated with flatware family traditions lasted until 1917, and in somefamilies - until the mid XX century.
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