Baby Bunting children's dishes have been around since Victorian times. The graphics from these earlier English dishes are picked up on this Homer Laughlin series of children's dishes. This dish has a wonderful graphic of Baby Bunting walking down the lane with the ever-present little dog and greeting a pussy cat. The lettering reads "Baby Bunting lifts his hat Politely to the Pussy-cat." The sides of the dish slant in to make it practical for feeding a young child.

Appropriate to the custom of the day, the little boy wears a white dress with a blue apron. In the center image his shoes are blue but on the small image on the side his shoes are red. The little dog also has a red bow around the neck. On the outside of the dish a gold band surrounds the top and another smaller one the middle.

The condition is good with these issues to point out, graphics on the surface of the plate show very little wear or skips. Wear to the gold lines is more noticeable in some spots on top line and only a few areas of second line. There is general crazing over all of the dish. Glaze is thin in some spots on the white rim

On the bottom is the Homer Laughlin logo and "Made in the USA" and the letters and numbers "B 8 N". Information I found regarding the HCL back stamps is interesting and helpful in dating this piece. HCL pieces contain a series of letters and numbers. The company has provided the information to help decipher these codes. "A change was made for the period of 1921 - 1930. The first letter was used to indicate the month of the year... The next single digit number was used to indicate the year, and the last figure for the plant." This dates the dish to February 1928 made at the Newell, W. Virginia plant

This is an exceptional dish and you will be pleased with adding it to a collection, display in the nursery or give as a gift for a baby shower!

Dimensions:

Top - 6 3/4"

Bottom - 7 1/4"

1 1/2" tall