19th C. Lustreware Child's Cup with Hand-painted Thumbprint Bird and Branch handmade clay marbles is to see what is

is to see what is going on behind you

with the box glazed in bright white and the flat lid in grays and yellow feeling very late 50s modernist abstraction

and then three individual soldiers mounted to their own little blocks

but this is the sort of Santa I'd be happy to see year round

There is no ball included

19th C. Lustreware Child's Cup with Hand-painted Thumbprint Bird and Branch handmade clay marbles is to see what isAnother week another 19th c. child's cup, this one with pink lustre around the rim and detailing the handle, c. 1830s or so I believe, What makes it for me of course is this hand painted bird on green leafy branch, and particularly that the orange body of the bird appears to have been made of a fingerprint. Something about fingerprints captured from one particular person at one particular moment that have time travelled in this case nearly two