Large Early Green and White Hand-painted Faience Platter with Staple Repair and Tin Strap Hanger acorns I follow thee there…

I follow thee there…

but then I realized it was surely a prize for the winner of what must have been a fierce Old Maid card game

I went back to the dealer source of the perfect gouache/watercolor theorem pear I offered up last week

down to the stippled leaves on the trees that hover over the figures

Large Early Green and White Hand-painted Faience Platter with Staple Repair and Tin Strap Hanger acorns I follow thee there…I purchased this antique faience platter from the same MA based dealer as the blue and white bowl I just listed, and they feel like sisters to me this one decorated in a pretty green and gold, which feels very Florentine to my eye, though whether Italian or French or otherwise European. I'm not expert enough to say. Clearly another quite old one, though, and another with a satisfying staple repair running across the back, and another monogram, too.