Description:
English miniature, pearlware saucer, part of an eight piece teaset decorated in blue. The shallow, circular saucer is decorated with a chinoiserie landscape with a tall house, trees, foliage sprays, flying birds, and fences, with the rim encircled by two plain and scalloped bands.
Label Text:
Toy tea sets were used to teach girls the ritual of brewing and serving tea to guests. The American Girl’s Home Book of Work and Play (1833) discussed “Make-Believe Housekeeping” and concluded that “The transition is an easy one from the make-believe to the real, and a child who has this training will never feel the terror of housekeeping that fills many a girl before marriage.”
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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