Let Us Open His Basket (and Take and Hide What We Find) ...Metaphoric for the Moment .c. 1840s Staffordshire Child's Plate folk art carriage but here's a handful together

but here's a handful together

1 7/16” x 5/8 x 3/4 and in excellent condition

or Bathsheba

7 11/16" x 5 3/16" oil on wood panel

Let Us Open His Basket (and Take and Hide What We Find) ...Metaphoric for the Moment .c. 1840s Staffordshire Child's Plate folk art carriage but here's a handful togetherA number of 19th century British transfer decorated pieces made for children today, which I really just can't get enough of but each of which I choose for their own specific reasons. Many of these represented games and various sorts of play, sometimes strange or curious ones, but this one struck me as especially timely in a critique of the present moment sort of way: a group of young men (looking quite like commanders or oligarchs in training)