@Oznell Right now that serving dish is sitting in my china cabinet. I actually bought it for my daughter who has Blue Willow dishes and collects other blue and white pieces.
In 2014, I bought the serving dish for potato salad that I was
serving at a 1914 Garden Party for the Centennial celebration of
my house, which was built in 1914. The plan was to give it to my daughter after the party, but it ended up in my china cabinet.
I sort of forget about it, until now. I'll have to see if she wants to take it home.
For the party, we had tables with white linens set up in the garden and on our wrap around porches. All the food was what would have been served in 1914, for a picnic or garden party.
I made assorted tea sandwiches, potato salad, cole slaw and Swedish pickles. My daughter made a molded gelatin salad and from a local restaurant , we got fried chicken. For dessert I made a Bundt lemon pound cake decorated with fresh strawberries, brownies and little ice cream cups and watermelon. We also had old fashioned salt water taffy.
Antique glass pitchers held lemonade, iced tea and ice water. We had a cooler filled with small bottles of sodas that would have been popular at that time. The small children were served milk from an antique milk bottle.
We had a music CD with 1914 music and I placed stereoscopes with cards to view, on my wicker tables. From my
garden, I made floral arrangements for the dining tables. We had croquet set up on the lawn.
Each guest received a little penny candy bag filled with
candies that were available in 1914. The grandsons received a 1914 penny in a coin case and the grand daughters received little floral design magnets.
For the adult guests, I made glass paperweights with images
of antique floral designs inside. They were presented in green velvet bags. The ladies were each given a"votes for women" pin that I got from the Preservation Society in Newport Rhode Island.
Everyone dressed in 1914 attire. We had straw boater hats for the men and I bought round collared white shirts for my son and husband. All the ladies had decorated straw hats and
antique jewelry. I made my dress and bought an antique white
eyelet trimmed dress for my three year old great grand daughter. She wore a wide lavender satin ribbon waist sash and a large bow in her hair with the same ribbon. I took a picture of her with an antique wicker doll carriage that belonged to my mother.
After planning that party for two years, it turned out quite well. It was a perfect Sunday afternoon in June.
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