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Sterling Highchair Tray
The McChesney Company ,
Newark, New Jersey
Circa 1920
Center acid etched with four picture panels; the lower center panel depicts a boy and a girl opposite each other, eating at a table in front of a window (the tablecloth was designed for personalized monogramming — uncut); the large panel on the left depicts The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe serving her children broth; the upper middle panel depicts the baby of Bye Baby Bunting in a cradle surrounded by rabbits; and the large right panel depicts Mother Goose reading to children in the foreground, while Jack and Jill mount the hill to the well in the background; the tray is significant in weight and gage.
Height: 9 1/2 "
Length: 15 1/4 " |
