Let Us Open His Basket (and Take and Hide What We Find) ...Metaphoric for the Moment .c. 1840s Staffordshire Child's Plate antique fifteen game 2 1/2" in diameter x

2 1/2" in diameter x 1/8" thick and in excellent condition

with these highly stylized stacked animals on opposite sides rendered in matte baby blue

Lid fits very nicely and snugly over the bottom half

The color is a nice warm caramel and the box is in great shape

wire hinges

Let Us Open His Basket (and Take and Hide What We Find) ...Metaphoric for the Moment .c. 1840s Staffordshire Child's Plate antique fifteen game 2 1/2" in diameter xA number of 19th century British transfer decorated pieces made for children today, which I really just can't get enough of but each of which I choose for their own specific reasons. Many of these represented games and various sorts of play, sometimes strange or curious ones, but this one struck me as especially timely in a critique of the present moment sort of way: a group of young men (looking quite like commanders or oligarchs in training)