Collection of Porcelain Dinnerware with Chloe Preston Designs

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8" (20 cm.) w. baby dish. Each is white porcelain with colorful scenes of Chloe Preston Peek-A-Boo children, including baby dish in metal warming pan with Peek-A-Boo boy and girl in winter wear, with matching plate and two creamers (one depicting a crawling girl and the other with robe-wrapped boy whose hat is flying away). Condition: generally excellent. Comments: from original designs by British illustrator, Chloe Preston, circa 1925. Value Points: of special note are three pieces with WWI themes, including Red Cross Sisters in cart with donkey, Red Cross Sisters "Hurrying to Red Cross Hospital", and British soldiers "Enrolling Recruits" with both soldiers and recruit designed as Peek-A-Boo children.