Victorian Era Staffordshire Spill Vase with Two Figures drawing of man in glasses With its great color scheme

With its great color scheme

Perhaps they made it to bind the work of a class

but would be tempted to ink it and put it back in use to print a series of cards to be used for sending congratulations to friends for various accomplishments

which I'd guess dates to the mid 19th century or so

This is one of my very favorite boxes I've had in my possession

Victorian Era Staffordshire Spill Vase with Two Figures drawing of man in glasses With its great color schemeI bought this antique Staffordshire spill vase just after I had purchased a pair of vintage Mexican folk art candleholders; I was struck at the moment by the similarities among them in their charming, somewhat kitschy Baroqueness. And as a spill vase was used to carry a flame from fireplace to candle or stove, they relate in function as well. I really love the smiling faces on these two and the way she seems to lean a bit against him, and also that