19th C. Stencil Decorated Handthrown Folk Art Pottery Plate jet plane with lead residue on the

with lead residue on the mold and scalding to the wood

I think it is just fantastic

He looks to me as if just on the cusp of setting forth to make his name in the world

and a weight on the underside

including the hinged lid (which became common on both patch and snuff boxes in the mid-18th c) suggests the former (and the style of the lettering feels early 19th c

19th C. Stencil Decorated Handthrown Folk Art Pottery Plate jet plane with lead residue on theI found this one in the Hudson River Valley a week or so ago, and, while I'm not in the least an expert on antique stencil decorated folk art pottery, most commonly grouped into the categories of spongeware and spatterware, it had has quite a special feeling about it, and I'm very smitten with it. From everything I can tell it is a fairly unusual one, I believe a homemade one off as decorated, and of course reminds me a lot of theorems, and schoolgirl