19th C. Lustreware Child's Cup with Hand-painted Thumbprint Bird and Branch intelligence test reminding one of the constructed

reminding one of the constructed nature of every image while also

One of my very favorite things found at Brimfield—beautifully crafted

executed in gray that runs lighter to darker in shade and then with terrific red accents along the bottom edges

and two wider splints interrupting thinner ones to add variation to the woven basket

is just terrific

19th C. Lustreware Child's Cup with Hand-painted Thumbprint Bird and Branch intelligence test reminding one of the constructedAnother 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