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Pearlware Child's Toy Dinner Plate 3.5" Kite Flyer c1820 Hackwood Staffordshire Miniature
References: 1) Maurice and Evelyn Milbourn, ‘Understanding Miniature British Pottery & Porcelain,’ Figure 96, pp 89-90. “Thomas Bewick’s woodcuts are well known and one of his tailpieces in the ‘Book of British Birds’ shows an old man standing by a gravestone, a boy with a hoop, and buildings in the background. The gravestone is engraved with the text ‘Vanitas, Vanitatum, Omnia Vanitas’, and the woodcut is doubtless intended to demonstrate ‘Crabbed Age and Youth’. …by comparing several items was it possible to decipher the inscription on the gravestone as ‘Sacred to the memory of…..’, the last word indecipherable. …A date of about 1820 seems likely, and Benjamin Adams has been suggested as a possible maker. The pattern is usually known as ‘Gravestone’…” Also see pp 105-109, “The Hackwood family of potters covered two generations in the period 1807 to 1855, and they produced several miniature wares.”
2) Doris Lechler, ‘English Toy China,’ Figure 206, pp 78, 192; “…someone started calling (this set) kite flyer and this name will stick.”
3) Lorraine Punchard, ‘Playtime Pottery & Porcelain From the United Kingdom & the United States,’ p 119.
This scarce, antique child’s miniature Toy Dinner Plate, 3.5" is in an underglaze deep blue print of a scene of an old man dressed in Colonial style clothes, standing by a gravestone watching a boy fly a kite. A boy on the right is rolling a hoop. A brick wall runs through the center of the picture with a house, church, and trees in the background.
Several pattern names are used for this child’s miniature Dinner piece: ‘KITE FLYER’ is the most common name, however, scholars also referred to it as ‘CRABBED AGE and YOUTH,’ ‘OLD AGE and CARELESS YOUTH,’ and ‘GRAVESTONE.’ The manufactory of this Dinner Plate has also been a subject of debate. Milbourn attributes the maker as Benjamin Adams; Doris Lechler states: “…probably Hackwood.” Most agree and accept the date as c1820.
This scarce child’s miniature Toy Dinner Plate has excellent Color and Transfers, and measures:
(1) Dinner Plate: 3.5”
Please pardon any white reflections in the photos; additional photos upon request. This scarce miniature child’s Toy Dinner Plate is in excellent condition with consistent color and transfers. This is a very early, 200 years old child’s miniature Toy Dinner Plate that may have the occasional kiln marks - there is one on the edge that can be seen in the last photo on the edge at 11:00, and minor typical firing imperfections sporadically appearing consistent with production methods at the time of making, and it has tremendous display value. Presented as is and as found.
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