Tis a Very Good World, Tis the Very Worst World...Scarce Mid 19th Century Sunderland Pink Lustre, Transfer Decorated Plate vintage design blocks which is not a chip

which is  not a chip

and should last forever yet

The postcard

(I'm feeling rather compelled to start hunting for examples of all of them

and also very much like the idea of "laying hold on" time manifested on/in an object that has travelled well over 200 years and across an ocean to arrive in my hands

Tis a Very Good World, Tis the Very Worst World...Scarce Mid 19th Century Sunderland Pink Lustre, Transfer Decorated Plate vintage design blocks which is not a chipThe transfer decoration on this c. mid 19th century Sunderland plate was not perfectly executed (as is not at all uncommon) and the hand painting not done with a whole lot of precision, either (the globe at top, for example, just given a general sort of dab of that pale lemon yellow). But the effect to my eye is formally lovely, lending a sort of soft dreaminess to the whole thing, amplified further by the splashed pink lustre rim. And yet then a