Fetching! 1820s Transferware Child's Cup with Good Dog, Man with Hat and Lustre stoneware jar on turned bases

on turned bases

and I think is quite a lovely thing

3 3/4" t x 1" diameter at base

but he also makes me think of a train conductor

Very nicely--and painstakingly

Fetching! 1820s Transferware Child's Cup with Good Dog, Man with Hat and Lustre stoneware jar on turned basesAnother week another early 19th c. Staffordshire childs mug, because good ones keep crossing my path, and I've always got a close eye out for them, too. At this point I look mostly for ones I've never seen with text or imagery that strikes me as especially clever or fetching. And fetching this one is, with sweet dog swimming back to shore, stick retrieved. Unusual is that the center of the hat held by the dog's human companion is actually rendered in