Pears (soap) had so much success that Pears purchased the copyright to produce copies as advertisements for their soap products. They were made for shop counter displays in terracotta, plaster and metal. From the late 19th century, Pears soap was famous for its marketing, masterminded by Barratt. Its campaign using John Everett Millais's painting "Bubbles" continued over many decades. As with many other brands at the time, at the beginning of the 20th century Pears also used their product as a sign of the prevailing European concept of the "civilizing mission" of empire and trade, in which the soap stands for progress.
The Little Girl Sold with the Pears in the cellar. When she asked and it was brought up, the prince was hidden in it, so they married. The Little Girl Sold with the Pears "The Little Girl Sold with the Pears" is an Italian fairy tale collected by Italo Calvino in "Italian Folktales", from Piedmont. Ruth Manning-Sanders included a variant, as "The Girl in the Basket", in "A Book of Ogres and Trolls". Once there was a man had to pay the king rent in the form of four baskets of pears. One year his trees yielded only three and a half baskets full, so he put