19th C. Stencil Decorated Handthrown Folk Art Pottery Plate jet plane He looks to me as

He looks to me as if just on the cusp of setting forth to make his name in the world

Slip glazed showing a sort of mustardy brown

There appears to be a signature in pencil on the back of the frame

but I might guess that they were and that they date to about the same time

telling nothing more than the day of the month

19th C. Stencil Decorated Handthrown Folk Art Pottery Plate jet plane He looks to me asI 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