Charming Extra Small Hand-painted Transferware Child's Cup with Lamb modern clay I really love the painted

I really love the painted design on this lid of this old cigar type box

I might just set it on a shelf or bar to admire and spur visions of adventure

and to my eye just perfectly aged and worn

but what a nice idea

Lots of wear to the paint but in good condition

Charming Extra Small Hand-painted Transferware Child's Cup with Lamb modern clay I really love the paintedAnother thing I'm always looking at is 19th c. transferware child's cups, and at this point have become pretty familiar with a wide variety of them, mostly Staffordshire, but others too. I've never seen one quite like this, though, which is extra small, and extra good I think, with this transferware lamb running forever in place, animated by bold swipes of blue and yellow paint, creating a horizon line of sorts with sky above and ground below, plus