Early Hand-painted Blue and White Presumed Delftware Bowl with Big Fat Staple Repairs playing. cards with chicken on one side

with chicken on one side and egg on the other

Framed it measures 13 3/4" long x 12 7/8" tall x 7/8" deep

11 7/8" from top left corner to top right

which would allow one to rest a ruler against it to draw a straight line in the opposite direction

I love finding notebooks like this this one

Early Hand-painted Blue and White Presumed Delftware Bowl with Big Fat Staple Repairs playing. cards with chicken on one sideA flurry of old things in the very best blues and white today, this large bowl among them, which I believe is a piece of either Dutch or English tin glazed earthenware (faience) and quite an old one, 18th c. I would guess. Beautifully bold hand painted design on the face with pin wheel sort of a star at center (which seems very Dutch to me), and of course I especially love it for the extra large staples running across the underside, used to repair its