How Doth the Busy Bee Plate, and 1870-90

Antique transfer printed saucer showing a couple near some beehives with lines from Isaac Watts’ 1751  poem “How doth the little busy bee” (some errors in the printing make it tough to read): 

How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower!

A lovely sentiment, but what really makes this is the sheer look of horror on the couples face, as if they’ve been attacked or are about to be. 

7.5” dia 

Hairline crack pictured

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