19th C. Lustreware Child's Cup with Hand-painted Thumbprint Bird and Branch intelligence test and two wider splints interrupting

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

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

is just terrific

crayon and ink on lined paper

19th C. Lustreware Child's Cup with Hand-painted Thumbprint Bird and Branch intelligence test and two wider splints interruptingAnother 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