A set of six Carlton Ware/Lustre Pottery Walking Ware egg cups designed by Roger Michell and Danka Napiorkowska in the early 1970s. Shoe colours are grey, green, pink, yellow, black and including the more difficult to find sky blue. Printed marks for Carlton Ware/Lustre Pottery on each eggcup. Dimensions : Height 2.3 ins.
A Paragon cup, saucer and teaplate trio designed by Chloe Preston from her Peek-a-Boo Series in 1918 and produced in 1919, the cup illustrated with little boys (in imitation of their fathers) playing at being soldiers in the war. The cup bears an illustration of a wounded (boy)soldier being carried on a stretcher by two other (boy) soldiers to a military ambulance on the reverse side of the cup, and with the legend " A CASE FOR BLIGHTY " . The illustration also bears the printed signature of " CHLOE PRESTON ". The saucer and teaplate are both illustrated with a little girls dressed as a Red Cross nurses on a donkey cart. Entitled " RED CROSS SISTERS " and also both marked with the printed signature " CHLOE PRESTON " This series was designed towards the end of the first World War, when young boys would typically play at being soldiers and little girls as nurses - emulating the majority of their elders who had largely been involved in the First World War for the preceding four years. Marked to the bases with the Star mark and PARAGON CHINA ENGLAND Peek-a-Boo Series . The design's outline was transfer printed and then hand painted in enamels as are all the other Paragon children's china pieces from this period -(using the technique known as "print and tint"). Condition is particularly good. Pieces from this particular Chloe Preston series are now extremely scarce, and difficult to find now over 100 years since their original production. Dimensions : Cup height : 2.75 inches Saucer diameter : 5.25 inches Teaplate : diameter 6 inches
