WARNING: C. 1830s Staffordshire Pearlware Child's Cup The Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks small crease top center (not

small crease top center (not a tear)

There are plenty of cards (twelve) for a whole gang to play

This bowl combines one of my very favorite shapes and a the best matte

evoking and implying a whole lot through a small gesture

Jointed at the shoulders

WARNING: C. 1830s Staffordshire Pearlware Child's Cup The Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks small crease top center (notI love an antique Staffordshire transfer decorated child's cup combining text and image, and was struck by this one for the unusualness of its one word caption WARNING giving the whole thing a certain ominousness. These cups were certainly used to impart lessons of sorts, so this feels perhaps akin to picturing a fire drill or duck and cover exercise but compared to similar cups from the period that usually depicted games like 'playing at marbles' or