This listing is for a Victorian era child's bowl recently purchased from a local South Jersey estate sale. It is made of fine white porcelain with a transferware decoration featuring a little girl, Pittypat or Tippytoe, in a pink dress and a scattering of lavender flowers.
One side of the bowl features a stanza from the old English poem, "Pittypat and Tippytoe' written by Eugene Field (1850-1895):
"And when day is at an end,
There are little duds to mend:
Little frocks are strangely torn,
Little hose, but one day worn,
Who but you could work such woe,
Pittypat and Tippytoe?"
It measures 5" across and 3" deep and is marked "The Foley China England" and has the Foley china logo.
Condition: The gold trim on the border is worn. No chips, cracks, hairlines or repairs.
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