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Description: | This tin shape was also used for 'Nursery' of around 1880. The sprigs of holly and mistletoe surrounding the coat-of-arms suggest this tin was made for the Christmas market. The scene on the lid is rather strange - who are these children in such elegant surroundings? Even more bizarre are the figures in the ovals at each corner. There is an old man in a red cloak with some holly, two poor children - one with a goose, the other with a flute - and a servant girl with a Christmas pudding. The four figures could suggest an oblique, Dickensian criticism of the priviledged children on the lid. Alternatively, they could be intended to support the argument of the famous Victorian hymn, 'All Things Bright and Beautiful' - "The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, He made them, high or lowly, And ordered their estate." | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Publisher: | Huntley & Palmers | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | fern interior stair coat of arms childhood recreation | Temporal: | start=1875-01-01; end=1880-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Huntley, Boorne & Stevens | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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