Blind Man's Buff Antique Staffordshire Pearlware Child's Cup signed carving given a brutalist sort of

given a brutalist sort of a treatment

" combines a double meaning of fortune and protection from suffering

they're in very good shape

It bears some resemblance to the birds produced by Stangl Pottery in the mid-20th century

or definitely hung on the wall

Blind Man's Buff Antique Staffordshire Pearlware Child's Cup signed carving given a brutalist sort ofI've recently fallen deeply in love with English 19th century transfer ware combining text and illustration, like this pearlware Staffordshire child's cup, c. 1830s 40s, I believe. Staffordshire produced a whole series of child's cups featuring children playing games (leap frog, shuttlecock, playing at marbles, etc.) this one pictures "Blind Man's Buff" (yes, Buff, meaning "small push, which preceeded Bluff as the name for the tag like game, also