Antique Wedgwood Children Fishing Pastoral Scene Children's China Brown Transferware Plate
$79.99
Brand Wedgwood
Wedgwood Nursery Plate – Boy Fishing with Girl, Ducks Pond Scene
This is a charming antique Wedgwood plate with a pastoral, storybook-style scene—very typically referred to as Childrens’s China, Juvenile Ware or Children’s Nursery Patterns. Often, the scenes in these pieces were inspired by storybook or moral scenes and had a sentimental Victorian feel.
The scene here captures a quiet, innocent moment of two young children fishing together in a rural landscape—a theme often meant to evoke nostalgia, simplicity, and childhood leisure.
This kind of imagery was especially popular in mid 19th to early 20th century ceramics, often inspired by storybooks or idealized English countryside life.
Wedgwood made several of these brown transferware nursery sets, often without widely marketed pattern names. The backstop dates this piece to the late 19th century
Measures: Appx 7.5”
condition: excellent for age having no chips or cracks
