Fetching! 1820s Transferware Child's Cup with Good Dog, Man with Hat and Lustre stoneware jar so eager to transform his

so eager to transform his vision into tangible form

Perhaps these were left over from cut stencils

Written in a really engaging

as opposed to the smaller ones one more commonly sees and which were carried around in a pocket

Very nicely--and painstakingly

Fetching! 1820s Transferware Child's Cup with Good Dog, Man with Hat and Lustre stoneware jar so eager to transform hisAnother week another early 19th c. Staffordshire childs mug, because good ones keep crossing my path, and I've always got a close eye out for them, too. At this point I look mostly for ones I've never seen with text or imagery that strikes me as especially clever or fetching. And fetching this one is, with sweet dog swimming back to shore, stick retrieved. Unusual is that the center of the hat held by the dog's human companion is actually rendered in