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Title: Sowerby Nursery Rhyme Ware Posy Vase
Post by: mhgcgolfclub on January 26, 2016, 05:32:38 PM
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
Title: Re: Sowerby Nursery Rhyme Ware Posy Vase
Post by: Carolyn Preston on January 26, 2016, 06:17:26 PM
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
Title: Re: Sowerby Nursery Rhyme Ware Posy Vase
Post by: MHT on January 26, 2016, 07:46:27 PM
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
Title: Re: Sowerby Nursery Rhyme Ware Posy Vase
Post by: agincourt17 on January 26, 2016, 09:35:31 PM
On bottom row of page 4 of Sowerby pattern Book IX (1882).

Unregistered design.

Fred.
Title: Re: Sowerby Nursery Rhyme Ware Posy Vase
Post by: Carolyn Preston on January 27, 2016, 04:24:48 PM
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