Charming Extra Small Hand-painted Transferware Child's Cup with Lamb original Naef blocks I think their shapes are

I think their shapes are beautiful

Great character

it feels wonderful in the hand and is unique from every angle

and then a sort of grainy sand finish to the rest of the exterior to create the impression of stone

It was quite finely carved of the mineral sepiolite

Charming Extra Small Hand-painted Transferware Child's Cup with Lamb original Naef blocks I think their shapes areAnother 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