Charming Extra Small Hand-painted Transferware Child's Cup with Lamb 19th c watercolor from serving snacks to potting

from serving snacks to potting a small plant

I always love these for the content as well as the aesthetics

recognizable as a jaw but also looking a bit like a model of earth strata

It is actually a but of a puzzle to even figure out how to begin

There is a piece of the top layer of wood lost at the bottom left corner as pictured and a little paint loss at upper right

Charming Extra Small Hand-painted Transferware Child's Cup with Lamb 19th c watercolor from serving snacks to pottingAnother thing I'm always looking at is 19th c. transferware child's cups, and at this point have become pretty familiar with a wide variety of them, mostly Staffordshire, but others too. I've never seen one quite like this, though, which is extra small, and extra good I think, with this transferware lamb running forever in place, animated by bold swipes of blue and yellow paint, creating a horizon line of sorts with sky above and ground below, plus