For Grandma, Allie's 1878 Pinprick Rockinghorse with Fancy Border and Bows evil eye with a long cage at

with a long cage at one end (with the "ball" more rectangular than spherical)

I think the combination of charcoal black glaze with soft green around the rim of the vessel and lid and on the lid's center handle is just perfect

and carved with what I assume are the initials of its maker

and are stable now

For Grandma, Allie's 1878 Pinprick Rockinghorse with Fancy Border and Bows evil eye with a long cage atFor Grandma, from Allie, Christmas 1878: a very carefully pin prick drawn rocking horse, from an era when rocking horses were highly prized creatures! For me this is very much about the whole bright and proud package: the very carefully cut fancy decorative border to the cream board, and to the blue board behind it, and these perfectly tied ribbon bows at the corners, and then the note on the back, too; feels to me like the incarnate of what one (me)