Ladies Be Free... c. 1850 Thomas Fell & Co. Child's Cup and Saucer bavarian and with a cloth hanger

and with a cloth hanger mounted on the back

I assume from the tugging of some not so small fish

I am not entirely sure if it is a cucumber or a cactus dancing with the flowers

with the identity of the particularly spirit described less through the form of the body but rather through the applied color and additional decoration (feathers

or perhaps Pennsylvania

Ladies Be Free... c. 1850 Thomas Fell & Co. Child's Cup and Saucer bavarian and with a cloth hangerOf course it's the "Ladies All I Pray Make Free" that sold me on this child's sized antique transferware cup and saucer, made, I've learned, by Thomas Fell & Co., Newcastle England, c. 1850 as per one of the same, in black, held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. There's a bit of debate out there as to whether this should be classified as an early women's suffrage item; I think most likely it was not actually intended as such, but