I always love these for the content as well as the aesthetics
bright and crisp and beautiful
There is a piece of the top layer of wood lost at the bottom left corner as pictured and a little paint loss at upper right
I recently found another postcard featuring a baby holding a bottle of spilled ink
but yet this old fellow trudges along
Charming Extra Small Hand-painted Transferware Child's Cup with Lamb 19th c watercolor I always love these forAnother thing I'm always looking at is 19th c. transferware child's cups, and at this point have become pretty familiar with a wide variety of them, mostly Staffordshire, but others too. I've never seen one quite like this, though, which is extra small, and extra good I think, with this transferware lamb running forever in place, animated by bold swipes of blue and yellow paint, creating a horizon line of sorts with sky above and ground below, plus