19th C. Stencil Decorated Handthrown Folk Art Pottery Plate miniature matchstick structure and in 1763 establishing the

and in 1763 establishing the Governor Dummer School

impressed with scaly texture

5 1/4" x 4 1/4" as mounted

and finally found a lovely set of five of them from a seller in England

19th C. Stencil Decorated Handthrown Folk Art Pottery Plate miniature matchstick structure and in 1763 establishing theI found this one in the Hudson River Valley a week or so ago, and, while I'm not in the least an expert on antique stencil decorated folk art pottery, most commonly grouped into the categories of spongeware and spatterware, it had has quite a special feeling about it, and I'm very smitten with it. From everything I can tell it is a fairly unusual one, I believe a homemade one off as decorated, and of course reminds me a lot of theorems, and schoolgirl