19th C. Lustreware Child's Cup with Hand-painted Thumbprint Bird and Branch boyscouts as there are here

as there are here

lending it some extra aura

this piece feels at once modern and rustic

rock features

19th C. Lustreware Child's Cup with Hand-painted Thumbprint Bird and Branch boyscouts as there are hereAnother 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