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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Iconodule, post: 11272470, member: 91417&quot;]Thank you for all the information!&nbsp; Now that I know who painted them, I am even more interested.&nbsp; I don’t think Elizabeth Stoner can be considered a hobbyist painter. She identified herself as “artist,” had her own studio, taught china painting, produced pattern books for sale (to those hobbyists), created and painted her own designs, and sold her work through her husband’s china shop. She seems to have been a woman who transformed the acceptable feminine artistic pastime of china painting into a profession.</p><p><br /></p><p>I used to teach a course on Women Artists with the theme “obstacles overcome.” I wish I had known that my mother owned works by a woman artist.&nbsp; It would have been fun to use them as illustrations for china painting as an “acceptable” art form for women and how a woman could turn the hobby into a career.&nbsp; I could even see her (or her and other china painters) as the topic of a Master’s thesis or a research paper.&nbsp; I think I will keep watching for other examples of her work.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think I will market the plates that way—by a woman artist.&nbsp; I noticed the seller of the poppy plate on Ruby Lane called Elizabeth Stoner a “famous” woman artist. A bit of an overstatement, but a documented woman painter is accurate.&nbsp; If I price them too high and they do not sell, I then have a documented woman painter in the pieces I keep.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any identification of the fauna represented (some kind of pod)?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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