Early Hand-painted Blue and White Presumed Delftware Bowl with Big Fat Staple Repairs playing. cards but I think this is

but I think this is pretty special for the awkward juxtaposition of these two fellows

which would allow one to rest a ruler against it to draw a straight line in the opposite direction

11 7/8" from top left corner to top right

with chicken on one side and egg on the other

though I am not 100% sure

Early Hand-painted Blue and White Presumed Delftware Bowl with Big Fat Staple Repairs playing. cards but I think this isA 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