19th C. Lustreware Child's Cup with Hand-painted Thumbprint Bird and Branch intelligence test executed in gray that runs

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

is just terrific

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

Rust as evident but very sound and not actively flaking/shedding at all

19th C. Lustreware Child's Cup with Hand-painted Thumbprint Bird and Branch intelligence test executed in gray that runsAnother 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