C. 1830s Staffordshire "Circulating Library" Child's Transferware Cup boy with roses this one has a great

this one has a great architectural form and scale to it

Large enough to be used as dinner plates

and is quite rare

it's certainly an empathetic one if one is as disposed toward wounded creatures as I am

-of the door

C. 1830s Staffordshire "Circulating Library" Child's Transferware Cup boy with roses this one has a greatIt was a great week for finding antique transferware children's cups; this is one of two I am listing, both rare and I think just fabulous this one humorously representing a circulating library, books flying everywhere in a gust of wind. Preceding public libraries, in the 18th and 19th c. circulating libraries were important (for profilt) social and cultural institutions in Britain and America, providing for a subscription fee the rising middle class