Description
Three 19th Century Nursery Plates: The largest printed in rusty red with an figural scene depicting mother and infant outside cottage between verse ‘Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well, Ah no the thought I cannot bear, And if God please my life to spare, I hope I shall reward my Care My Mother’ in a moulded border of flower heads daubed in blue, yellow, green and rust, 7¼” (18.5 cm) in diameter. A little plate bat-printed with a girl dancing and playing the tambourine in landscape within a decorative panel entitled ‘For my dear Girl’. framed by a relief moulded border of scrolling vine, daubed with rust & green enamelled leaves and painted with scrolling tendrils, 5½” (14 cm) in diameter. Another small bat-printed plate depicting child ‘Getting Fruit’, with coloured overglaze and moulded flowers to the border, 5¼” (13.3 cm) in diameter.