Early Hand-painted Blue and White Presumed Delftware Bowl with Big Fat Staple Repairs colorful treen boxes Quite a couple

Quite a couple

I believe these date to the 1870s-80s or so

probably twice its size

Finely executed in graphite on substantial weight drawing paper

a men's store specializing in fine hats

Early Hand-painted Blue and White Presumed Delftware Bowl with Big Fat Staple Repairs colorful treen boxes Quite a coupleA flurry of old things in the very best blues and white today, this large bowl among them, which I believe is a piece of either Dutch or English tin glazed earthenware (faience) and quite an old one, 18th c. I would guess. Beautifully bold hand painted design on the face with pin wheel sort of a star at center (which seems very Dutch to me), and of course I especially love it for the extra large staples running across the underside, used to repair its