19th C. Stencil Decorated Handthrown Folk Art Pottery Plate antique jumping jack heart and Saturn

heart and Saturn

These birds are from a larger group of 19th c

and several more on top of that at the corners

but also really like the FILTER side with a gash through it

19th C. Stencil Decorated Handthrown Folk Art Pottery Plate antique jumping jack heart and SaturnI 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