Beatrix Potter "Jemima Puddle-Duck Made a Feather Nest" BP-6a
Beatrix Potter "Jemima Puddle-Duck Made a Feather Nest" BP-6a
Endearing characters from over twenty-three story books written by English author Helen Beatrix Potter were charmingly recreated in fine hand-painted porcelain by F. Warne & Co. Ltd. in Beswick, England.
This figurine depicts Jemima Puddle-Duck contentedly sitting on her feather nest. She wears a pretty robin's egg blue bonnet and lavender shawl with green flowers.
Coveted by collectors the world over, Jemima Puddle-Duck Made a Feather Nest is technically known as BP-6a based on the markings found on the bottom of the figurine.
ROYAL ALBERT
ENGLAND
Jemima Puddle-Duck
Made a Feather Nest
Beatrix Potter
F. WARNE & CO. 1983
1989 ROYAL ALBERT LTD
The copyright date of 1989 indicates the year figurines with this marking were first produced. The BP-6a version of the marking sets the actual production of this figurine between the years 1989 and 1998.
The figurine is in excellent condition, with absolutely no chips, cracks, crazing, or repairs of any kind. It is exceptionally clean and dust free.
This is the fifth of six Beatrix Potter figurines we will list.
Helen Beatrix Potter was born in 1866, and lived in the English countryside with her artistic parents. She had few friends beyond her large extended family, but enjoyed watching the little animals that inhabited her family's property. Often she sketched and painted, even writing imaginative stories about the animals at a young age . This innate artistic and creative gift was most famously expressed through a series of tales she wrote about a character called Peter Rabbit. In all, she wrote twenty-three such tales, including:
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902)
- The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin (1903)
- The Tailor of Gloucester (1903)
- The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (1904)
- The Tale of Two Bad Mice (1904)
- The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (1905)
- The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan (1905)
- The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher (1906)
- The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit (1906)
- The Story of Miss Moppet (1906)
- The Tale of Tom Kitten (1907)
- The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck (1908)
- The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or, The Roly-Poly Pudding (1908)
- The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (1909)
- The Tale of Ginger and Pickles (1909)
- The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse (1910)
- The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes (1911)
- The Tale of Mr. Tod (1912)
- The Tale of Pigling Bland (1913)
- Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes (1917)
- The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse (1918)
- Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes (1922)
- The Tale of Little Pig Robinson (1930)