C. 1830s Staffordshire "Circulating Library" Child's Transferware Cup pipe this is just about a

this is just about a perfect thing

Signed on the bottom KM

produced on the occasion of the first exhibition of Kelly's prints at Galerie Adrien Maeght Paris in June 1965 and printed by Imprimerie Arte

so she would have been 12 in 1842

and often incorporate tools carved from antler

C. 1830s Staffordshire "Circulating Library" Child's Transferware Cup pipe this is just about aIt was a great week for finding antique transferware children's cups; this is one of two I am listing, both rare and I think just fabulous this one humorously representing a circulating library, books flying everywhere in a gust of wind. Preceding public libraries, in the 18th and 19th c. circulating libraries were important (for profilt) social and cultural institutions in Britain and America, providing for a subscription fee the rising middle class