1930s Shelley Baby's Bowl / Plate by Mabel Lucie Attwell (Sold)

Stock No. 199 

A baby's bowl (reads "BABY'S PLATE" on the side edge) designed by Mabel Lucie Attwell and produced by Shelley in either the late 1920s or early 1930s. This example is in good condition with slight wear and with only one minute 'flea-bite' chip to rim around 'five-o-clock'. A little boy is portrayed as sitting on a branch with Boo Boos either side of him. The legend reads "Do you know the laddie who lives in a tree, with fairies to love him and ask him to tea."

Although Shelley produced Mabel Lucie Attwell's designs up to 1939, Boo-Boos (the little green fairy/elfin folk) were phased out of the designs in the later 1930s. These old designs did re-surface on Shelley china after the war for a few years, but using different ceramic body shapes in some cases and a revised colour palate in others. Those later examples are marked "fine bone china" in the Shelley backstamp, unlike this and other pre-war examples that are just marked with the plain Shelley backstamp.

Dimensions :
Diameter of base : 8.25 inches

( cf. Gifts For Good Children vol. 2 by Maureen Batkin, pages 10 & 153 - 158).

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