Plate
- Object Name:
- Plate
- Object ID:
- 1956.389.05
- Description:
- Child's Plate. Pearlware, earthenware slightly scalloped circular rim and circular base ring. Painted blue feather edging on rim. Blue transfer-print in center depicts a boy and a girl standing beside two bee skeps. Two figures are looking at each other, the girl carries a bouquet of flowers. There is a house in the background and flowers and bees in the foreground. The scene is surrounded with the text " In vorks of labor or of skill, / I would be busy too; / For Satan finds some mischief still / For idle hands to do." Mark on reverse handpainted blue underglaze "x".
- Material:
- Ceramic
- Dimensions:
- H-0.5 Dia-4.3 inches
- Provenance:
- Gift of Margaret H. Jewell.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Margaret H. Jewell
- People:
- Jewell, Margaret H. (1866-1970)
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