Additional Image:

Close-up.
Reverse view.
Shape Type
Miscellaneous
Pattern Type
Children
Date
1820-30
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 6.50 in (16.51 cm)
Maker
Unknown

Description:

A child's plate printed with the title My Mother. It reads; "Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well; My Mother."  The poem is from Original Poems for Infant Minds by  Ann Taylor Gilbert (1782-1866).
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