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Description: | Although the central figure on the lid is Father Christmas, this tin is named after the cherub-like figures flying around him. These creatures are 'Snow babies'. They began life in pre-World War One Germany as small unglazed porcelain (bisque) figures of children, warmly dressed for winter and often sitting or pushing sledge. Their features gradually became less realistic and closer to the figures shown on this tin in the 1920s - cherub-like and dressed in white woolly baby-suits. Such porcelain figures are popular today in America, many of them made using old German moulds. Nevertheless, although less well-known in England, this tin - presumably intended for the Christmas market - shows that there was some familiarity with the form here too. | 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: | reindeer holly natural science sleigh star Father Christmas balloon domestic candle present tree transport event folklore and legend snow costume baby | Temporal: | start=1953-01-01; end=1956-12-31; | 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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