Antique Majolica Plate with Drippy Dog cloth rabbit The image is printed

The image is printed

which I believe came out of a Michigan collection but which I found in Maine

Just a couple of matchstick bits missing from the chimney

was produced in the 1980s

but I prefer these--preparatory I assume

Antique Majolica Plate with Drippy Dog cloth rabbit The image is printedI'm not attracted to this sort of majolica as a rule, but I sure love this plate. Specifically, I love this dog, which but for the glazing one might take for a lamb, and what could be better than a lamb like dog!? And in this case the drippy, painterly green and brown animating the border seem just right, coloring what look to me like cabbages to nibble on. And with some drippy yellow too, as if our dog has marked its territory! With the fairly faint