Let Us Open His Basket (and Take and Hide What We Find) ...Metaphoric for the Moment .c. 1840s Staffordshire Child's Plate antique fifteen game Lid fits very nicely and

Lid fits very nicely and snugly over the bottom half

with these highly stylized stacked animals on opposite sides rendered in matte baby blue

second half  20th century I think

7 1/8" l x 4 1/2" t x 1/2" thick and in good shape

Let Us Open His Basket (and Take and Hide What We Find) ...Metaphoric for the Moment .c. 1840s Staffordshire Child's Plate antique fifteen game Lid fits very nicely andA number of 19th century British transfer decorated pieces made for children today, which I really just can't get enough of but each of which I choose for their own specific reasons. Many of these represented games and various sorts of play, sometimes strange or curious ones, but this one struck me as especially timely in a critique of the present moment sort of way: a group of young men (looking quite like commanders or oligarchs in training)