Early Hand-painted Blue and White Presumed Delftware Bowl with Big Fat Staple Repairs colorful treen boxes I knew when I found

I knew when I found this drawing (and a second listed separately)--sent as a Christmas card to artist Lois Gross Smiley

Quite a couple

and sweet cow with what appears to be full udder galloping along behind

a men's store specializing in fine hats

Early Hand-painted Blue and White Presumed Delftware Bowl with Big Fat Staple Repairs colorful treen boxes I knew when I foundA flurry of old things in the very best blues and white today, this large bowl among them, which I believe is a piece of either Dutch or English tin glazed earthenware (faience) and quite an old one, 18th c. I would guess. Beautifully bold hand painted design on the face with pin wheel sort of a star at center (which seems very Dutch to me), and of course I especially love it for the extra large staples running across the underside, used to repair its