wedgwood beatrix potter mrs tiggy-winkle hedgehog laundress child cup+saucer eng

Description: the pair i can find no issues. according to thepotteries, the wedgwood mark on the cup and saucer only dates the set to post 1940, nothing more specific. i love beatrix potter stuff. it is so profoundly innocent, it takes you to a different plane. the theme of this pair is the story of mrs. tiggy-winkle, the hedgehog laundress (more on that story below). it is by wedgwood (more on them below). just a lovely laundry-themed pair. the saucer depicts a laundry bag and a pre-electric iron. the cup depicts lucie and mrs. tiggy-winkle herself. you also get a bonus chicken in the inside of the cup. the saucer is nicely concave. the cup reads lucie and mr. tiggy-winkle with he bundles of clothes. all the way down the path little animals came out of the fern to meet them; the saucer reads «what's that thing?» said lucie «that's not my pocket-handkin» «oh now, if you please'm; that one belongs to old mrs. rabbit; dimensions cup rim diameter and height are each 3". from the outer most part of the handle to the opposite rim is 4 1/8". saucer rim diameter is 5 1/2". the rim is 1 1/4" away from the surface on which the saucer rests. base marks cup the number 47 wedgwood® of etruria & barlston copyright fredrick warne & co. beatrix potter designs™ mrs. tiggy-winkle™ saucer wedgwood® of etruria & barlston copyright fredrick warne & co. beatrix potter designs™ mrs. tiggy-winkle™ about the tale of mrs. tiggy-winkle (from: wikipedia) the tale of mrs. tiggy-winkle is a children's book written and illustrated by beatrix potter. it was published by frederick warne & co. in october 1905. mrs. tiggy-winkle is a hedgehog washerwoman who lives in a tiny cottage in the fells of the lake district. a human child named lucie happens upon the cottage and stays for tea. the two deliver freshly laundered clothing to the animals and birds in the neighbourhood. potter thought the book would be best enjoyed by girls, and, like most girls' books of the period, it is set indoors with a focus on housework. potter's pet hedgehog, mrs. tiggy-winkle, and kitty macdonald, a scottish washerwoman, were the inspirations for the eponymous heroine. lucie carr, a child friend of potter's, was the model for the fictional lucie. potter's peter rabbit and benjamin bunny make cameo appearances in the illustrations. the newlands valley and the surrounding fells are the sources for the backgrounds in the illustrations. mrs. tiggy-winkle has been described as one of potter's most positive creations, but critics consider lucie an artistic failure. although mrs. tiggy-winkle is set in an identifiable place and time period, the tale is mythologized by reaching back to an age when household chores were performed manually and without the aid of modern mechanical inventions. the simple dwellings, rustic pathways, and stone fences enhance the tale's timeless aspect and suggest an unchanging countryside and its way of life. mrs. tiggy-winkle became a popular character and the subject of considerable merchandise over the decades including nursery ware and porcelain figurines. the tale has been published in braille and the initial teaching alphabet, and has been translated into french, german, and dutch. in 1971, mrs. tiggy-winkle became a character performed by sir frederick ashton in the royal ballet film, the tales of beatrix potter. in 1993, the tale was adapted to animation and telecast as an episode of the bbc series, the world of peter rabbit and friends. in the world of peter rabbit and friends the story was combined with the tale of jeremy fisher, the 7th book in the series. this book, the tale of mrs. tiggy-winkle, is the 6th book in the series. it is also the 6th book to be published. mrs. tiggy-winkle with jenny wren's wine-stained table cloth a little girl named lucie lives on a farm called little-town. she is a good little girl, but has lost three pocket handkerchiefs and a pinafore. she questions tabby kitten and sally henny-penny about them, but they know nothing (especially since tabby kitten licks her paw, and sally henny-penny flaps back into the barn clucking, «i go barefoot, barefoot, barefoot!» neither of which is very helpful). lucie mounts a stile and spies some white cloths lying in the grass high on a hill behind the farm. she scrambles up the hill along a steep path-way which ends under a big rock. she finds a little door in the hillside, and hears someone singing behind it: lily-white and clean, oh! with little frills between, oh! smooth and hot – red rusty spot never here be seen, oh! she knocks. a frightened voice cries out, «who's that?» lucie opens the door, and discovers a low-ceilinged kitchen. everything is tiny, even the pots and pans. at the table stands a short, stout person wearing a tucked-up print gown, an apron, and a striped petticoat. she is ironing. her little black nose goes sniffle, sniffle, snuffle, and her eyes go twinkle, twinkle, and beneath her little white cap are prickles! she is mrs. tiggy-winkle, the animals' laundress and «an excellent clear-starcher». she keeps busy with her work. she has found lucie's lost things, and launders them for her. she also shows lucie items belonging to mrs. tiggy-winkle's animal customers. they have tea together, though lucie keeps away from mrs. tiggy-winkle due to the prickles. lucie enters mrs tiggy-winkle's cottage; potter had trouble depicting humans the laundered clothing is tied up in bundles and lucie's handkerchiefs are neatly folded into her clean pinafore. they set off together down the path to return the fresh laundry to the little animals and birds in the neighbourhood. at the bottom of the hill, lucie mounts the stile and turns to thank mrs. tiggy-winkle. «but what a very odd thing!» mrs. tiggy-winkle is «running running running up the hill». her cap, shawl, and print gown are nowhere to be seen. how small and brown she has grown – and covered with prickles! «why! mrs. tiggy-winkle [is] nothing but a hedgehog!» the narrator tells the reader that some thought lucie had fallen asleep on the stile and dreamed the encounter, but if so, then how could she have three clean handkerchiefs and a laundered pinafore? «besides», the narrator assures the reader, «i have seen that door into the back of the hill called cat bells – and besides i am very well acquainted with dear mrs. tiggy-winkle!» background the story of mrs. tiggy-winkle was inspired by kitty macdonald, a scottish washerwoman the potters employed over the course of eleven summers at dalguise house on the river tay in perthshire, writes leslie linder. potter was 26 when, in 1892, she visited macdonald while staying at heath park, birnam. she wrote in her journal: «went out with the pony ... to see kitty macdonald, our old washerwoman ... kitty is eighty-three but waken, and delightfully merry ... she is a comical, round little woman, as brown as a berry and wears a multitude of petticoats and a white mutch. her memory goes back for seventy years, and i really believe she is prepared to enumerate the articles of her first wash in the year '71». in 1942, the year before she died, potter's thoughts returned to kitty macdonald when she wrote about a piece of crockery: seventy eighty years ago it belonged to another old woman, old katie macdonald, the highland washerwoman. she was a tiny body, brown as a berry, beady black eyes and much wrinkled, against an incongruously white frilled mutch. she wore a small plaid crossed over shawl pinned with a silver brooch, a bed jacket, and a full kilted petticoat. she dropped bob curtsies, but she was outspoken and very independent, proud and proper ... the joy of converse with old katie was to draw her out to talk of the days when she was a wee bit lassie—herding the kine. the days when ‹boney› was a terror ... the old woman wouldn't dwell upon hard weather and storms; she spoke of the sunshine and clouds, and shadows, the heather bells, the ... «the broom of the cowden knowes, the sun and wind on the hills where she played, and knitted, and herded cattle and sheep. a bonny life it was, but it never came back ...» mrs. tiggy-winkle may have been conceived as early as 1886, it was not until 1901 potter began elaborating it while on holiday at lingholm west of derwentwater where she met young kathleen and lucie carr, daughters of the local vicar. in 1902, it was put to paper. the carr family lived at skelghyl, but potter took some artistic liberty and moved the house's location to little town in the text. the family came to tea at lingholm often with potter delighted by the one-year-child's behaviour. on one occasion, lucie left her gloves behind at lingholm, and potter transformed the incident into the fictional lucie's propensity for losing her pocket handkerchiefs. a small copy book contains what is believed to be the earliest manuscript of mrs. tiggy-winkle. its title page is inscribed: «made at lingholm, sept. 01 told to cousin stephanie at melford nov. 01—written down nov. 02. there are no pictures, it is a good one to tell—» potter used her cousin's daughter, stephanie hyde parker, as audience for the draft of the story. she likely meant to dedicate the book to stephanie, writing in the manuscript, «now stephanie, this is a story about a little girl called lucie; she was smaller than you and could not speak quite plain». in the end however, the book was dedicated to lucie carr. stephanie would receive the dedication to the tale of mr. jeremy fisher in 1906. early in 1904, potter was putting the finishing touches on benjamin bunny and two bad mice. at the same time, she began giving serious thought to developing the tale about mrs. tiggy-winkle and lucie. she had been working on backgrounds and had been carrying her pet hedgehog with her when travelling. on 15 march she wrote to her editor norman warne, «i have been drawing the stump of a hollow tree for another hedgehog drawing». potter and warne agreed volume of nursery rhymes would be created in 1905 but she also brought his attention to a story she had previously written, writing to him, «i think 'mrs. tiggy' would be all right; it is a girl's book ... there must be a large audience of little girls. i think they would like the different clothes». she began the illustrations in the summer once he agreed to the concept. about etruria works/wedgwood (from: wikipedia) the etruria works was a ceramics factory opened by josiah wedgwood in 1769 in a district of stoke-on-trent, staffordshire, england, which he named etruria. the factory ran for 180 years. wedgwood had previously based his business in the nearby town of burslem at the ivy house works and the brick house works (demolished—the wedgwood institute is built on its site). in 1767 wedgwood paid about three thousand pounds for his new site, which was then known as the ridgehouse estate. it lay directly in the path of the trent and mersey canal of which wedgwood was a promoter. on one side of the canal wedgwood built a large house, etruria hall and on the other side a factory. there is a description of etruria in the 1930s in jb priestley's english journey. by this time the site was affected by mining subsidence, and plans were drawn for a new factory at barlaston some miles south on the trent and mersey canal. the new factory was built in 1938–40 and most of the old factory was demolished in the twentieth century after the wedgwood company moved production to barlaston. maker's and/or other marks cup the number 47 wedgwood® of etruria & barlston copyright fredrick warne & co. beatrix potter designs™ mrs. tiggy-winkle™ saucer wedgwood® of etruria & barlston copyright fredrick warne & co. beatrix potter designs™ mrs. tiggy-winkle™ dimensions cup rim diameter and height are each 3". from the outer most part of the handle to the opposite rim is 4 1/8". saucer rim diameter is 5 1/2". the rim is 1 1/4" away from the surface on which the saucer rests. condition i can find no issues. the fine print the images serve as the majority of the listing description, so take a look at them closely. shipping costs have really increased—this is calculated into the buy-it-now price. i am not able to sell individual items from items i have listed as a group. i just don't have the stamina to create new listings for those. i apologize for that. i haven't initially individually listed items because i don't have enough listing slots to so. trying to downsize some, though extremely melancholically. shipping time: i otherwise work more than full time and my health isn't great, so kindly excuse the longer handling time. if i am able to ship sooner, i absolutely will do that. i appreciate you taking the time to view my listing.

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Location: Atlanta, Georgia

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