Train a Child in the Way He Should Go...C. Late 18th C. English Blue on White Motto Dish gift for host with whiskers that look like

with whiskers that look like arrows pointing towards his nose

and with the end tip of the wood actually being a plug that pulls out

various passages of cross-hatching

The slide top fits perfectly

and best of all metallic green eye and very long white whiskers

Train a Child in the Way He Should Go...C. Late 18th C. English Blue on White Motto Dish gift for host with whiskers that look likeWonderful. I'm forever looking for unusual early motto dishes with this manner of lettering pre dating the c. 1830s Staffordshire child's mugs and the like I typically find by a couple of decades I believe; extra lovely and extra special feeling. I can find no likeness of this one out there anywhere beautifully executed in this blue against white with a border I'd describe as berries on branch but looking a bit weeping willow esque too. (And also a