The Little Plunderer, Early 19th C. Staffordshire Child's Mug small plate I like this one for

I like this one for its folky strangeness

both formally (among other influences

it is filled with some 30 colored pencil drawings of planes "designed and drawn"--"free hand

The piece is in excellent condition

plus gilded rims framing it from above and below

The Little Plunderer, Early 19th C. Staffordshire Child's Mug small plate I like this one forAnother antique Staffordshire child's mug, because I can't get enough of these, though I'm increasingly picky about the ones I like. In this case it's the title "the little plunderer" that drew me because plundering seems as much of the moment as it ever was! The particular plunderer in question here, though, seems not to be this fancified boy but rather the bird perched on his finger though it seems quite likely there's satire at play here, or