White and black children's alphabet plates |
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| Title : | White and black children's alphabet plates |
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| Source : | Crompton Collection | ||
| Format : | Toy | ||
| Dimensions : | 13 mm diameter | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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| Donated by : | Crompton Family |
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| Description : |
Four plates with indistinctly moulded alphabet around the straight rim and a central design in black: Two plates with three children on a seesaw, one with two girls and a swing and one with a bird and its nest. Games and pastimes were a popular theme for the designs on children's crockery and also provide information about the more popular outdoor activities. Here we have swings, seesaws and bird nesting, but hoops, tops and kites as well as hunting and fishing have been used for plate design. Very few potteries actually marked their children's wares; Riley writes 'On the whole they are not wares that the factories were particularly proud to produce to acknowledge by marking ...' (p. 13) |
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| Further reading : | Riley, Noel. Gifts for good children: the history of children's china. Part 1, 1790-1890, Ilminster, Somerset: Richard Dennis, 1991 |
| Internet links : | Powerhouse Museum: Collections Search for 'Toy tea sets' |
| Exhibitions and events : | State Library of South Australia: Mortlock Wing exhibitions. To be a child August 2004- |
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