Large Early Green and White Hand-painted Faience Platter with Staple Repair and Tin Strap Hanger acorns also found in Maine and

also found in Maine and perhaps done by the same maker years ago) transforming scraps into something remarkably beautiful and satisfying in a very tramp art sort of way

down to the stippled leaves on the trees that hover over the figures

which I would used as small planters or vases

with the people especially soulful--this wild eyed pink cheeked girl in her blue bonnet a perfect case in point

I went back to the dealer source of the perfect gouache/watercolor theorem pear I offered up last week

Large Early Green and White Hand-painted Faience Platter with Staple Repair and Tin Strap Hanger acorns also found in Maine andI purchased this antique faience platter from the same MA based dealer as the blue and white bowl I just listed, and they feel like sisters to me this one decorated in a pretty green and gold, which feels very Florentine to my eye, though whether Italian or French or otherwise European. I'm not expert enough to say. Clearly another quite old one, though, and another with a satisfying staple repair running across the back, and another monogram, too.