Ladies Be Free... c. 1850 Thomas Fell & Co. Child's Cup and Saucer naughty figure --hand thrown porcelain lidded vessel

--hand thrown porcelain lidded vessel

with some inspirational cartoon planes from a newspaper glued to the back

but otherwise the handle is in very good shape

who attended the School for Arts and Crafts at Essen in 1921 and the Dusseldorf Academy from 1922 to 1923

iron handle still in place

Ladies Be Free... c. 1850 Thomas Fell & Co. Child's Cup and Saucer naughty figure --hand thrown porcelain lidded vesselOf course it's the "Ladies All I Pray Make Free" that sold me on this child's sized antique transferware cup and saucer, made, I've learned, by Thomas Fell & Co., Newcastle England, c. 1850 as per one of the same, in black, held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. There's a bit of debate out there as to whether this should be classified as an early women's suffrage item; I think most likely it was not actually intended as such, but