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The soft tones of tapestry are an excellent background for 
the cream colored Wedgwood used here. The birds are 
Italian pottery and the candles orange colored. Courtesy 
of Darnley, Inc. 
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on the side table flanking an alabaster urn of 
flowers and balanced by a pair of lovely old 
Crystal candelabra—the whole reflected in a 
mirror. Another grouping consisted of an 
Adam console used as a serving table on which 
had been placed a central dish of fruit, a pair 
of gray-green birds that admirably matched 
the color of the paneling and two tall silver 
candlesticks. 
On the dining table itself many charming 
groupings can be evolved with the aid of pot¬ 
tery birds. They can be made to harmonize 
with many forms of table decoration and are 
often just the color note needed. A pair of 
cream-colored birds, of that lovely shade 
Wedgwood discovered would be effective used 
in connection with some colored Venetian 
glass. Or four little parakeets might be ar¬ 
ranged around a crystal vase of fragile glass 
Northern! 
Northend 
An especially graceful ar¬ 
rangement has been ac¬ 
complished here with the 
aid of two little colorful 
parakeets 
flowers, providing an en¬ 
semble individual and pic¬ 
torial if frankly artificial. 
A pair of these birds are 
especially attractive used in 
groupings on refectory 
tables. Placed either side 
of a bowl of fruit or flowers 
they are usually what is 
needed to break the long 
line. 
In other rooms they find 
many places. Often one or 
two tiny china birds are 
just the accessories needed 
to balance a lamp or fig¬ 
urine on a marquetry table, 
and for a mantel they are 
the ornaments par excel- 
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Fruit, birds and flowers 
combine well in any 
scheme of decoration. 
The Chinese chanticleers 
shown here complete an 
effective grouping 
