Children's set comprising 2 illustrated porcelain plates, 1 flat and 1 hollow, off-white, underlined with a golden frieze.
Illustrated by Norman Meredith*, the soup plate scene is from an 18th century English nursery rhyme: "There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children she didn't know what She gave them broth without bread..." She would refer to the English Parliament of the time compared to an old woman.*
I guess the other illustration with the child musician and the pigs is also taken from a nursery rhyme.
Stamped Limoges France - Théodore Haviland. 70s-80s

Very good state. A little wear in the drawing on the flat plate (at the level of the little pigs)
Soup bowl:
- diameter: 19.7 cm
- height: 3.5 cm
Flat plate
- diameter: 22 cm

*Norman Meredith is an English illustrator (1909-2005) born in Liverpool. He took drawing lessons from the age of 16 and then enrolled at Liverpool School of Art. He studied at the Royal College. After teaching at the University of Aberystwyth, he began in humorous illustration. At the end of the Second World War, he illustrated educational and children's books.
Having become brilliant in this field, he was hired at St Martin's School of Art in 1947, as a tutor in commercial art, and as well as a drawing teacher.
In 1974, he retired. It was during this period that he illustrated books relating to an anthropomorphic world. This activity will lead to the production of various objects: gift wrapping, textiles, tin boxes and porcelain.
He exhibited his works at the Chris Beetles Gallery for the first time in 1984 where he achieved great success.