Train a Child in the Way He Should Go...C. Late 18th C. English Blue on White Motto Dish pottery cup wickets 2 1/2" w x

wickets 2 1/2" w x 2 3/4" t

There is an eye hook strung with a loop of twine on the back for hanging

Now stable and sturdy

it feels a bit more like one carved by a prisoner than an end-of-the-day leisurely whittler

including a couple of gold griffins perched on high in the background

Train a Child in the Way He Should Go...C. Late 18th C. English Blue on White Motto Dish pottery cup wickets 2 1/2" w xWonderful. I'm forever looking for unusual early motto dishes with this manner of lettering pre dating the c. 1830s Staffordshire child's mugs and the like I typically find by a couple of decades I believe; extra lovely and extra special feeling. I can find no likeness of this one out there anywhere beautifully executed in this blue against white with a border I'd describe as berries on branch but looking a bit weeping willow esque too. (And also a