This bone china creamer along with the two deep cake plates shown in the group shot...
This bone china creamer along with the two deep cake plates shown in the group shot above embodies in its decoration the virtues of rustic domestic life -- a celebration, in fact of the sort of middle-class home for which it was intended. The molded basket weave relief is suggestive of rural domestic goods. The rococo shape reserves set into that relief frame enameled puce transfer vignettes that present scenes of homely pleasures.
With a bit of imagination one might see the vignettes around the body as a sequence depicting the establishment of the ideal home: from courtship in a pastoral setting, to the arrival of the couple at their country villa, to the mother diverting her children with her harp. In all the scenes the importance of the feminine presence in homelife is clear.