Intemperance Produces Starvation, Dramatic and Timely 19th C. Transferware Plate chip carved frame looking like a bell

looking like a bell

satisfying on all sorts of levels

but with its gorgeous matte celadon green body and elegant swirls of deep blue and darker green

Executed in low relief

Intemperance Produces Starvation, Dramatic and Timely 19th C. Transferware Plate chip carved frame looking like a bellThis one struck me for its highly dramatic but also very matter of fact message: Intemperance Produces Starvation. And while clearly the intemperance here refers to drinking with the source of misery man at center holding a bottle in his hand it seems to me quite resonant now when considering intemperance in the broader sense (i. e. intemperate leaders and wielders of power producing starvation both literal and figurative.) There is a whole history of