Large Early Green and White Hand-painted Faience Platter with Staple Repair and Tin Strap Hanger carlotta huse ) I like this one

) I like this one especially for its subtlety and mutability: it feels serene in a white or neutral space

and the long-fingered hands of his mother wrapping him from either side

(Another example I found  online appears to have sold for just shy of $400

with interlocking cages

making it a nice one to place on a high shelf--which is exactly where I spotted this one and ran straight for it

Large Early Green and White Hand-painted Faience Platter with Staple Repair and Tin Strap Hanger carlotta huse ) I like this oneI purchased this antique faience platter from the same MA based dealer as the blue and white bowl I just listed, and they feel like sisters to me this one decorated in a pretty green and gold, which feels very Florentine to my eye, though whether Italian or French or otherwise European. I'm not expert enough to say. Clearly another quite old one, though, and another with a satisfying staple repair running across the back, and another monogram, too.