Topic: Sowerby Nursery Rhyme Ware Posy Vase

[mhgcgolfclub]

Sowerby nursery rhyme ware.

Not sure if this piece was from a nursery rhyme or a child book illustration. I remember having one of these before but do not know the pattern number. Marked on the base with Sowerby Peacock.

Roy

[Carolyn Preston]

That picture (and we may have discussed this already) looks very much like illustrations in a book that used to belong to my mother. It was called "The Baby's Opera -- A book of old rhymes with new dresses" by Walter Crane, Engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans. It was published in the '20's by Federick Warne & Co, Ltd.

There is no publication date, but was inscribed to my mum and her two siblings in Julyu 1929. (Mum was born in '25)

Carolyn

[MHT]

Pattern number 1260, Lavender's Blue

Carolyn is correct, from Walter Crane's The Baby's Opera (page 17)

Book here: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25418/25418-h/25418-h.htm

[agincourt17]

On bottom row of page 4 of Sowerby pattern Book IX (1882).

Unregistered design.

Fred.

[Carolyn Preston]

Pattern number 1260, Lavender's Blue

Carolyn is correct, from Walter Crane's The Baby's Opera (page 17)

Book here: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25418/25418-h/25418-h.htm

Lavender's Blue, to be precise LOL