Children’s Glass Dishes, China, and Furniture, Volume 2

If a cartographer created a map of the intriguing world of the playhouse and its equipage, the map would include sunny peaks of exquisite taste and elegance as well as shadowed valleys of slip-shod workmanship. There would be caves of mystery filled with strange and unclaimed designs. Exposed clay strata and glaze would reveal secret techniques of the past. The rosy-cosy harbors of the nurseries and playhouses would reflect the niceties of life's comforts and security, indicating in tandem the manner of life in the "big house." Nearly everything made for Mother was in turn produced in miniature form for the little hostess.

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Table of Contents:

Cover

About the Author

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

Introduction

Collecting Toy China

Index

Bibliography