Miniature Teapot

Miniature tea and dish set made for a child to play with.

Commissioned directly from the artist in the winter of 1936-37 by Graham Rowley for his neice Jane Jeffares. The artist told Rowley the coloured inlay plastic came from toothbrush handles.

Miniature forty piece tea set carved of walrus tusk: teapot with lid (a-b), sugar bowl with lid (c-d), milk jug (e), 4 cups (f-i), 4 saucers (j-m), 4 teaspoons (n-q), 4 knives (r-u), 4 forks (v-y), 4 soup spoons (z-cc), 1 mug (dd), 5 plates (ee-ii), 1 round lidded dish (jj-kk), and a rectangular lidded dish (ll-mm) and platter (nn). Around the tops of the teapot, sugar bowl, jug, mug and lidded dishes is a ring of inlay red, blue and green circles of plastic.