19th C. Lustreware Child's Cup with Hand-painted Thumbprint Bird and Branch intelligence test left empty

left empty

One of my very favorite things found at Brimfield—beautifully crafted

but think it's a pretty fun piece

reminding one of the constructed nature of every image while also

is just terrific

19th C. Lustreware Child's Cup with Hand-painted Thumbprint Bird and Branch intelligence test left emptyAnother week another 19th c. child's cup, this one with pink lustre around the rim and detailing the handle, c. 1830s or so I believe, What makes it for me of course is this hand painted bird on green leafy branch, and particularly that the orange body of the bird appears to have been made of a fingerprint. Something about fingerprints captured from one particular person at one particular moment that have time travelled in this case nearly two