19th C. Stencil Decorated Handthrown Folk Art Pottery Plate miniature matchstick structure now strung with black thread

now strung with black thread for hanging them

and it makes me want to get out the sewing machine and sew something

Very good condition--super bright color and the wood is in excellent shape

5 1/4" x 4 1/4" as mounted

and stains to the porcelain here and there

19th C. Stencil Decorated Handthrown Folk Art Pottery Plate miniature matchstick structure now strung with black threadI found this one in the Hudson River Valley a week or so ago, and, while I'm not in the least an expert on antique stencil decorated folk art pottery, most commonly grouped into the categories of spongeware and spatterware, it had has quite a special feeling about it, and I'm very smitten with it. From everything I can tell it is a fairly unusual one, I believe a homemade one off as decorated, and of course reminds me a lot of theorems, and schoolgirl