The Little Plunderer, Early 19th C. Staffordshire Child's Mug small plate The piece is in excellent

The piece is in excellent condition

and then this great splint flower spreading across the top

both formally (among other influences

And a stand made just for it too

plus gilded rims framing it from above and below

The Little Plunderer, Early 19th C. Staffordshire Child's Mug small plate The piece is in excellentAnother antique Staffordshire child's mug, because I can't get enough of these, though I'm increasingly picky about the ones I like. In this case it's the title "the little plunderer" that drew me because plundering seems as much of the moment as it ever was! The particular plunderer in question here, though, seems not to be this fancified boy but rather the bird perched on his finger though it seems quite likely there's satire at play here, or