TABLE FRIVOLITIES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22344, 15 February 1936, Page 7 (Supplement)

TABLE FRIVOLITIES

THE "DUNCE'S CAP M The more amusing your condiment Bet is to-day the more successful it will be, saj's our London shop-hound. One of the prettiest of the nelvcomers is a set with "dunce's cap" salt and pepper containers and a dumpy little mustard pot, all decorated with a pinky, check design called Tartan. If jrou have ever admired the beauty of pinewood at sunset—reddish tree trunks, deep blues and greens in the foliage, you will like a cruet set, sugar dredger, and toast rack in a pattern called Pinegrove, which is carried out in these colours on a creamy base. The amusing feature of this set is the mustard pot, which is drum-shaped and has a perky little black knob placed sideways on the lid. A condiment set in matt black pottery was a good idea, because it will go with any china. The three pieces fit into a black pottery tray. A bon-bon set, consisting of half a dozen miniature plates in a china basket was unusual, in that the plates were triangular with slightly curved edges, and a complete dinner set carried out in this shape is something • quito new and attractive.