Group of Children’s plates, underglaze blue urn & children pattern, c. 1850
$160.00 AUD
Group of four plates from a child’s service, decorated in underglaze blue with a pattern including central flower-filled urn surrounded by children with tableglobe, books, and tools, a ship under sail to one side, a ruin to the other, within flower & scrollwork borders.
Consisting: oval meat plate, soup plate, dinner plate, side plate.
Unmarked, maker unknown,
Circa 1850
Largest 14x11cm
Condition: All pieces with a crack each, soup plate broken & re-stuck. Displays well.
The pattern, apparently not recorded, is very interesting; the central classical urn has figures moulded on it, showing it to be a ‘Roman Antiquity’ type. There is a distinction between the two children to the left and the two to the right: left children are well dressed & has the globe & is reading from a book, – and there is a ship sailing towards distant horizons. Right is dressed in rags, has tools of unknown purpose by them, and a ruin in the background. Allegorical for Wealth & Poverty?
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