Adventures of Ned, Fred and Ellis - Set of Four Humorous Ink Drawings faience each depicts a working animal

each depicts a working animal in a very iconic and really quite regal manner--to my eye just about as good as it gets

I'd never actually sat down and used one of these before

printed with a pattern of sun-like faces inside a hexagonal labyrinth

other smallish creatures

with an unglazed area on the underside

Adventures of Ned, Fred and Ellis - Set of Four Humorous Ink Drawings faience each depicts a working animalFour drawings total here, shown across the first and second photos the first the largest and the other three postcard sized. Together they portray adventures of Ned and Fred and Ellis: heading to the woods with a cart full of apple tree knots (which Ned alone seems to have chopped), burying a skunk, and chauffeuring a cow while a cat runs along beside them, and then a big question mark begging the question of what came next!? Seems perhaps the work of