Set model by Osbert Lancaster for the second of three scenes for John Cranko's ballet Bonne Bouche which takes place in a jungle. It shows a landscape inspired by the paintings by Henri Rousseau providing a total contrast to the South Kensington square of the first and last scene. The settings for the ballet were highly praised. Bonne Bouche (translated as 'appetising treat') was presented at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 4 April 1952.Performed by Sadler's Wells Ballet it had a score comissioned from Arthur Oldham.

Osbert Lancaster, who is best remembered as a cartoonist and illustrator, was introduced to theatre when he was taken to a performance of The Sleeping Princess by Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Alhambra. In the 1950s and 1960s he became a designer of sets and costumes acclaimed for their liveliness and wit. He designed four productions for the companies that became The Royal Ballet beginning with Cranko's popular Pineapple Poll for the Festival of Britain through to the still performed La Fille mal gardee choreographed by Frederick Ashton. He also designed for Glyndebourne, the Old Vic and Festival Ballet.

Bonne Bouche was a cautionary tale, a spoof on Edwardian attitudes in this instance a mother prepared to wed her daughter to the highest bidder. Critic Mary Clarke felt it paralleled Evelyn Waugh's novel Black Mischief noting that was enjoyed for two seasons 'a tasty morsel, but not a sustaining meal'. While the ballet, set in a South Kensington square and the African jungle with a theme of cannibalism, would be unacceptable in the twenty first century (and one critic did criticise it as a work in bad taste), its caricature characters were appreciated as light-hearted entertainment in 1952.