Victorian Porcelain Cat Fairing

Item: 1475746960

A charming German porcelain fairing.  The ornament features five little cats. The fairing has the word's 'Five O Clock Tea' written on the bottom of the piece. Lovely painted detail to this piece. Fairings were given out as prizes at fun fairs during the Victorian period.

Dimensions: 9.9cm x 9.2cm

Victorian china fairings are small porcelain ornaments depicting a variety of scenes, humorous, political or domestic. The ornament almost always incorporates a base and many fairings have a caption describing the scene or making some point inscribed on the base. China fairings were given away as prizes at fairs in the Victorian era, in much the same way that we would win a coconut at a fair today. They first started appearing in the middle of the nineteenth century and remained popular until the start of the First World War.