Stunning, Very Scarce, Early 1800s Tranferware Motto Plate, Perfect, with Hand-formed Wire Hanger norwegian souvenir I'm not at all an

I'm not at all an expert on bird carvings

and/or a string with fish

and a very lovely thing

painted on a plate (I thought was wood but now am thinking is likely hard paper mache) with a hanger on the back

Stunning, Very Scarce, Early 1800s Tranferware Motto Plate, Perfect, with Hand-formed Wire Hanger norwegian souvenir I'm not at all anYou know I have a thing for early British pearlware transferware motto plates, but this is by far the most beautiful I've seen (the border, with raised flowers and black painted details is just stunning) and it's quite an early and scarce one. I also love it for the use of the now fairly achaic use of the word "sport" here meaning diversion fun, here taking the form of our girl perched at the high end of what looks to be seesaw, all the while