Tis a Very Good World, Tis the Very Worst World...Scarce Mid 19th Century Sunderland Pink Lustre, Transfer Decorated Plate child's cup and plate The "cover"

The "cover"

which make it easy to imagine them traveling out on plein air painting expeditions

This is a "toy" watercolor set

Among the pages of the story he's done four illustrations--the first two in watercolor

A finely done

Tis a Very Good World, Tis the Very Worst World...Scarce Mid 19th Century Sunderland Pink Lustre, Transfer Decorated Plate child's cup and plate The "cover"The transfer decoration on this c. mid 19th century Sunderland plate was not perfectly executed (as is not at all uncommon) and the hand painting not done with a whole lot of precision, either (the globe at top, for example, just given a general sort of dab of that pale lemon yellow). But the effect to my eye is formally lovely, lending a sort of soft dreaminess to the whole thing, amplified further by the splashed pink lustre rim. And yet then a