Poole Pottery Transfer Plate, Sampler Series, "Cleaning and Scrubbing

Poole Pottery Transfer Plate, Sampler Series, "Cleaning and Scrubbing"

This Poole Pottery Transfer plate is from a series of plates based on Samplers. This is a particularaly charming plate and certainly one of the more difficult to find in this series. It shows a mother rocking her baby. The inscription reads, "Cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow .... for babies grow up we've found to our sorrow. So quiet down cobwebs, dust go to sleep..I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep!". This plate is in excellent condition and has a diameter of approximately six inches. The reverse of this plate is stamped with the  Poole logo.

Poole Pottery produced most of its transfer plates from open stock patterns in the 1980's and 1990's. Poole do not seem to have kept a comprehensive list of the patterns that they produced, so the many collectors of these transfer plates are constantly on the lookout for additional plates to add to their collections. Prices are now rising steadily, so make sure that you add to your collection before new aquisitions become too expensive.