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'Imps on a Bridge'

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'Imps on a Bridge'
a Wedgwood Fairyland lustre Lincoln plate, designed by Daisy Makeig Jones, printed and painted in colours and gilt, the border of flowers and foliage on celadon ground printed factory marks -- 27cm. diam.

Literature

Des Fontaines, Una Wedgwood Fairyland Lustre Born-Hawes, a similar plate illustrated with the extra Tree House pattern in plate 48 page 211

Lot Essay

The Imps on the Bridge pattern with stylised figures with their 'turnip-tail top knots' are copied form the Kewpies drawn by Rose O'Neill which first appeared in strip cartoons in Ladies Home Journal in 1909. By 1913 they had been patented, being produced as dolls and figures in various materials.

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