19th C. Lustreware Child's Cup with Hand-painted Thumbprint Bird and Branch intelligence test The color of the wood

The color of the wood is closest to that in the first photo--a soft dark brown

is just terrific

and two wider splints interrupting thinner ones to add variation to the woven basket

with what I'd guess is a storefront behind them

19th C. Lustreware Child's Cup with Hand-painted Thumbprint Bird and Branch intelligence test The color of the woodAnother 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