19th C. Stencil Decorated Handthrown Folk Art Pottery Plate jet plane and a weight on the

and a weight on the underside

Slip glazed showing a sort of mustardy brown

but I might guess that they were and that they date to about the same time

She gave Christ her kerchief to wipe his brow

including the hinged lid (which became common on both patch and snuff boxes in the mid-18th c) suggests the former (and the style of the lettering feels early 19th c

19th C. Stencil Decorated Handthrown Folk Art Pottery Plate jet plane and a weight on theI found this one in the Hudson River Valley a week or so ago, and, while I'm not in the least an expert on antique stencil decorated folk art pottery, most commonly grouped into the categories of spongeware and spatterware, it had has quite a special feeling about it, and I'm very smitten with it. From everything I can tell it is a fairly unusual one, I believe a homemade one off as decorated, and of course reminds me a lot of theorems, and schoolgirl