Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 1 : Presscuttings, 1959-1962

TABLES FOR GALA PARTIES WEDDING ANNIVERSARY, a dinner party for two. is pictured above. Arranged by Mrs. Conn Steley, this Bening features a handpninted Limoges china dinner service and American silver cutlery. The mulberry linen cloth is a perfect foil for blue and mauve hydrangeas in a silver bowl. These six lovely table settings arranged by well-known Queensland hostesses for an exhibition in Brisbane are widely different in period and style. They range from a table featuring 16th-century napery and early English ironstone plates to rattan covers and wooden platters for a buffet at the seaside. At the top of the opposite page is a replica of the table setting at a dinner party for the Queen Mother when she stayed overnight at the home of the Misses Una, Aileen, and Enid Bell at Coochin Coochin, Boonah. The exhibition was in aid Ifs X114, '.;;, ENG A GEMENT party setting (left) by Airs. Murray Brown is gay with daisies and Cecil Brunner roses banked around pink candles on an or. goodie clot h. A charming touch is the single ivy lea/ floating in each dainty finger bowl. CHINESE meal (right) has a jade wither tree on n grass laketide (made with a silver salver banked with Jr...11 moats). Mr, Lionel Ricketts folded dragon bowie and irory chopsticks to the tabletop °I ere,. white. and charroal /lone tiling. et PI:1'71.2 40 USTRALIAN ue lI dc, dip out. di, ude ud, , tied ta ii Uu et, mix - cent er 31, 1958 iIi to 0