Early Hand-painted Blue and White Presumed Delftware Bowl with Big Fat Staple Repairs playing. cards and a bit of colorful

and a bit of colorful patterned paper still adhered to the outside of her dress in one spot make me think perhaps she one was much more decorated

14 3/4" x 11 1/4"

just missing a nail to loop

11 7/8" from top left corner to top right

Framed it measures 13 3/4" long x 12 7/8" tall x 7/8" deep

Early Hand-painted Blue and White Presumed Delftware Bowl with Big Fat Staple Repairs playing. cards and a bit of colorfulA flurry of old things in the very best blues and white today, this large bowl among them, which I believe is a piece of either Dutch or English tin glazed earthenware (faience) and quite an old one, 18th c. I would guess. Beautifully bold hand painted design on the face with pin wheel sort of a star at center (which seems very Dutch to me), and of course I especially love it for the extra large staples running across the underside, used to repair its