Train a Child in the Way He Should Go...C. Late 18th C. English Blue on White Motto Dish gift for host It seems that he was

It seems that he was in his 20s or so when in North Carolina

hand-carved

and which came from a private collection in Texas

various passages of cross-hatching

and with the end tip of the wood actually being a plug that pulls out

Train a Child in the Way He Should Go...C. Late 18th C. English Blue on White Motto Dish gift for host It seems that he wasWonderful. I'm forever looking for unusual early motto dishes with this manner of lettering pre dating the c. 1830s Staffordshire child's mugs and the like I typically find by a couple of decades I believe; extra lovely and extra special feeling. I can find no likeness of this one out there anywhere beautifully executed in this blue against white with a border I'd describe as berries on branch but looking a bit weeping willow esque too. (And also a