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

and a weight on the underside

I think it is just fantastic

There appears to be a signature in pencil on the back of the frame

telling nothing more than the day of the month

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