Forever Shaking, c. 18th Century Delftware Tile with Perfectly Smeared Hand-painted Dancing Couple wax valentine rolls along smoothly like a

rolls along smoothly like a pizza wheel

and 52 more letters on top of that

which features a bunch of old writing on it in a child's hand

with a hairline split in wood along the front left side of the body

Forever Shaking, c. 18th Century Delftware Tile with Perfectly Smeared Hand-painted Dancing Couple wax valentine rolls along smoothly like aA happy accident this one, with what I believe was a smear to the rendering of the two figures literally baked into the tile several centuries ago! The effect, to my eye, is to add even more vigor to their dancing, as if they're forever shaking their whole bodies with a sort of maniacal exhuberance! Which somehow feels especially right for a Delft tile immediately recognizable things, iconic really, and made to laid in larger groups, such that their