19th C. Stencil Decorated Handthrown Folk Art Pottery Plate antique jumping jack the paper is fairly brittle

the paper is fairly brittle

with an overflowing bowl below it  set against a background of radiating rainbows

heart and Saturn

and several more on top of that at the corners

19th C. Stencil Decorated Handthrown Folk Art Pottery Plate antique jumping jack the paper is fairly brittleI 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