Suffragette Arcadian China Votes for Women Bell
Woman's Suffrage: Rare Arcadian Crested China 'She Shall Have Votes' Whimsy which is complete with the internal bell and stands 10cm high. A humorous souvenir made available to tourists while in Syston a town and civil parish in the district of Charnwood in Leicestershire.
It is representative of the attitudes towards the woman's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom at the time. Seen from one direction the viewer sees a face representing the flower of English beauty, when viewed from the opposite direction one sees the typical caricature of a bonneted dowdy suffragette. The implication being that votes for women would somehow spoil the classic beauty of England's fair woman folk. Circa 1908.
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- Date
- Circa 1908
- Height
- 10cm
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Woman's Suffrage: Rare Arcadian Crested China 'She Shall Have Votes' Whimsy which is complete with the internal bell and stands 10cm high. A humorous souvenir made available to tourists while in Syston a town and civil parish in the district of Charnwood in Leicestershire.
It is representative of the attitudes towards the woman's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom at the time. Seen from one direction the viewer sees a face representing the flower of English beauty, when viewed from the opposite direction one sees the typical caricature of a bonneted dowdy suffragette. The implication being that votes for women would somehow spoil the classic beauty of England's fair woman folk. Circa 1908.