Early Hand-painted Blue and White Presumed Delftware Bowl with Big Fat Staple Repairs colorful treen boxes I've been watching Ripley

I've been watching Ripley

It did have a ribbon with a little hanging loop attached to the top

and sweet cow with what appears to be full udder galloping along behind

I knew when I found this drawing (and a second listed separately)--sent as a Christmas card to artist Lois Gross Smiley

I might keep this one in a bowl or right on the counter in the kitchen

Early Hand-painted Blue and White Presumed Delftware Bowl with Big Fat Staple Repairs colorful treen boxes I've been watching RipleyA 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