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

a men's store specializing in fine hats

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

most of all for the fact that its subject holds a book in her hand

probably twice its size

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