Description
A Staffordshire transferware cup plate, ” Poor Richards Way to Wealth.” The motto reads, ” Diligence is the Mother of Good Luck. Now I have a sheep and a cow everybody bids me a good morrow.”
The pattern is illustrated and discussed in “Gifts for Good Children: the History of Children’s China, part I, 1790-1890″ Noel Riley, 1991, pg. 271. Riley says a version of the pattern was used on wares from Maling, Newcastle. The pattern was copied from a picture sheet/jigsaw puzzle comprising 24 scenes of town and country life illustrating Franklin’s ‘Lessons for the Young and the Old, on Industry, Temperance, Frugality &c’ by Robert Dighton, published by Bowles and Carver, London, 1795.”
The scene shows a man with his arm on a cow, conversing with a man on his horse tipping his hat.
Black transfer on an earthenware body, a molded rim and a double daisy border.
“Diligence Is The Mother Of Good Luck”
Alt. Name: “Poor Richard’s Way To Wealth”, Now I Have A Sheep And A Cow
Category: Children’s Subjects / Piety and Virtue including Maxims
Maker: unknown
5.5″ across.
Very good, light wear.
