19th C. Stencil Decorated Handthrown Folk Art Pottery Plate antique jumping jack It seems the nine descendants

It seems the nine descendants from heaven

from his clenched jaw and high cheekbones (and very early 60s lifeguard haircut

No chips or cracks or other issues at all

but also really like the FILTER side with a gash through it

with an overflowing bowl below it  set against a background of radiating rainbows

19th C. Stencil Decorated Handthrown Folk Art Pottery Plate antique jumping jack It seems the nine descendantsI found this one in the Hudson River Valley a week or so ago, and, while I'm not in the least an expert on antique stencil decorated folk art pottery, most commonly grouped into the categories of spongeware and spatterware, it had has quite a special feeling about it, and I'm very smitten with it. From everything I can tell it is a fairly unusual one, I believe a homemade one off as decorated, and of course reminds me a lot of theorems, and schoolgirl