19th C. Lustreware Child's Cup with Hand-painted Thumbprint Bird and Branch boyscouts I believe this early carving

I believe this early carving is meant to represent a Revolutionary War officer-- tricorne hat

as if guarding the gates to Erongaicuaro

and signed on the bottom "Dybdahl Denmark

He can balance on his own in a seated position

as there are here

19th C. Lustreware Child's Cup with Hand-painted Thumbprint Bird and Branch boyscouts I believe this early carvingAnother week another 19th c. child's cup, this one with pink lustre around the rim and detailing the handle, c. 1830s or so I believe, What makes it for me of course is this hand painted bird on green leafy branch, and particularly that the orange body of the bird appears to have been made of a fingerprint. Something about fingerprints captured from one particular person at one particular moment that have time travelled in this case nearly two