Huge Early Yellowware Bowl with Old Make Do Wire (and Remnants of Leather) Repair antique brushes and with excellent alligatoring to

and with excellent alligatoring to the creamy white paint of the face on both sides

I of course though bought it for the kid drawings animating its end papers and a few more pages inside (where a blank space was found

I found these at an estate sale loaded to the gills with a lifetime's accumulation of all manner of things

ones with carved faces are amazing

Huge Early Yellowware Bowl with Old Make Do Wire (and Remnants of Leather) Repair antique brushes and with excellent alligatoring toA big, beautiful early yellowware bowl, 19th century (unmarked, un banded, un footed, i. e. the very best sort I think) made special by a fat old wire repair along the lip, backed by what I believe is a now much hardened piece of leather on the outside, which looks to be the remnant of what was once a strip that ran all along the crack, leaving a stain behind. I find it all very beautiful, with the character of the repair perfectly matching the