Charming Extra Small Hand-painted Transferware Child's Cup with Lamb modern clay Stacked in various configurations they

Stacked in various configurations they make for good tabletop or shelf sculpture

and to my eye just perfectly aged and worn

I really love the painted design on this lid of this old cigar type box

This one unfolds--reveals itself--over the course of a sequence of moves--opening the "front doors

steady on her feet

Charming Extra Small Hand-painted Transferware Child's Cup with Lamb modern clay Stacked in various configurations theyAnother 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