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Set of Ten Limoges Porcelain Mary Bacon Jungle Folk Pattern Dinner Plates Designed by Mary Bacon Jones (1868-1924), printed by Wm. Guerin & Co., circa 1905 En suite with the preceding, each circular with polychrome enamel designs based on Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. Diameter 10 7/8 inches. C
Generally good condition overall; some light rubbing to enamels, especially to ground from stacking; small scattered pin point spots of discoloration; small surface scratching Comprising plates inscribed: "He knew that when the jungle moves only white men can hope to turn it aside" "This is the hour of pride and power Talon and Tush and Claw Oh who hear the call good hunting all that keep the jungle law" "That is the noise of spring a vibrating boom which is neither bees nor falling water nor the wind in tree tops but the purring of the warn happy world" "With good luck a keen eye and the custom of considering whether a creek or a backwater has an outlet to it ere you ascend much my be done" "Luckily the law of the jungle had taught Mowgli to keep his temper for in the jungle life and food depend on keeping your temper" "There is none like to me says the cub in the pride of his earliest kill but the jungle is large and the cub he is small let him think and be still" "O little son of mine all things made he Shiva the preserver mahadeo! mahadeo he made all thorn for the camel fodder for the kine and mothers heart for sleepy head" "For summer gales and killer whales are bad for baby seals dear rat as bad as bad can be but splash and grow strong and you can't go wrong child of the open sea" "Nothing was ever yet lost by silence and thou hast all the long night for the hunting" "These are the four that are never content that have never been filled since the dews began Jacalas mouth and the glut of the kite and the hands of the ape and the eyes of man"