Let Us Open His Basket (and Take and Hide What We Find) ...Metaphoric for the Moment .c. 1840s Staffordshire Child's Plate Eastern European textile I purchased this one because

I purchased this one because of the beautiful marbled covers

I found this one in Vermont earlier this week

feeling a bit Swedish to me

The tray measures 15 1/4" long x 6 1/2" wide x 1 1/2" deep

Let Us Open His Basket (and Take and Hide What We Find) ...Metaphoric for the Moment .c. 1840s Staffordshire Child's Plate Eastern European textile I purchased this one becauseA number of 19th century British transfer decorated pieces made for children today, which I really just can't get enough of but each of which I choose for their own specific reasons. Many of these represented games and various sorts of play, sometimes strange or curious ones, but this one struck me as especially timely in a critique of the present moment sort of way: a group of young men (looking quite like commanders or oligarchs in training)