Mrs. Robertson's Sweet Old Set of Painted Wooden Pattern Blocks in Original Jointed Box (with One Substitute) display stand hand-painted Chinese export tea caddy

hand-painted Chinese export tea caddy struck me as so fine and so lovely that I could not resist

though I wouldn't have discerned a difference otherwise

The small vessel is made of high-fire porcelain coated with brown slip and incised

but also for her most beatific face

quite a nice--and endlessly rewarding

Mrs. Robertson's Sweet Old Set of Painted Wooden Pattern Blocks in Original Jointed Box (with One Substitute) display stand hand-painted Chinese export tea caddyI feel it is my duty to bring home every good and special old set of blocks I come across, especially those that are singular. These are smaller in scale than US Embossing Co. color cubes, but follow the same design, with red, white, blue and yellow solid colored sides, and then two sides of diagonal two color combinations. One block here is a substitute, colored red (looks like crayon) on all four sides; I always like finding these sorts of