Description
Three 19th Century Nursery Plates: The largest printed with figures and beehive below a verse; How doth the little busy Bee, Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day, From evry opning flower’ in a relief moulded border of flowers clobbered in puce, yellow and green enamels between a band of ironstone red, 7” (18 cm) in diameter. Another plate featuring a beehive entitled ‘Industry Learn to live’ in a moulded floral border with yellow, green, blue and rust red enamels, 6” (15.5 cm) in diameter. And a Mill scene entitled ‘The Miller’ with verse ‘ It is now the Miller’s turn to find. Who into Flour the Corn must grind. The husk or shell is used for Bran, The Flour as general food for Man’, 6¼” (15.5 cm) in diameter.