Description:

A rare earthenware bubby pot printed in blue in the Gables Farm pattern.  The pattern has a double helix border with florets and quatrefoils.  Used for feeding infants, bubby pots are shaped somewhat like a coffee pot with a lid.  The spout is often quite elongated and has a closed, perforated spout. The spout was covered with cloth, which served as a nipple.

In this genre pattern a woman is seen sitting with a birdcage on her lap as she converses with two men who are standing.  In the background is a large farm house, with diagonal timbers. The name Gables Farm was assigned to this pattern by David Furniss and Richard and Judith Wagner in Adams Ceramics: Staffordshire Potters and Pots, 1779-1998.