Landscape, Wild Rose Border Landscape, Falls of Killarney Pressed Glass Cup-Place Portrait of Henry Clay Floral Pattern Hyena Design] [Illustration: _Courtesy of Mr. Charles Allen Munn_ Early Printed Cottons Allegory of Franklin, and Apotheosis of Washington] surmounting of many difficulties. The _amateur_ need not concern himself with the matter completely in order to enjoy the few examples that may chance to discover themselves to him. The lovely dark-blue Davenport ware, with designs in the Chinese style, are worth looking for. Ware such as this is familiar to every collector and is coming to be appreciated more generally than formerly. From even a small collection of cup-plates much pleasure may be derived, and the collector need not feel that it is hopeless to start getting together examples of worth. If things are being picked up here and there on the one hand, it is true that, on the other, examples of cup-plates fully worth while are coming to the market as well as leaving it. CHAPTER VI CHINTZ Chintz has been called the _tapisserie d’Aubusson_ of the cottage home. Its place in the affections of the collector of antiques and curios has long been secure. For fully fifty years and more lovers of household ancientry have gathered to their appreciation bits of old printed fabrics. Originally the word “chintz” was applied to the printed cotton fabric from India, each piece being called in early days a _chint_, a name which was derived from the Hindu _cint_, Bengal _cit_, and Sanscrit _chitra_, meaning spotted or variegated. Afterward it came to be applied to the glazed printed calicoes of European and American manufacture, gaily patterned with flowers and birds and figures in diverse colors on a white ground. Its calendered dust-shedding surface made the material a great favorite with careful housewives. Cretonne, the French substitute for chintz, a heavier material, was not introduced until somewhere around the year 1860.