Fetching! 1820s Transferware Child's Cup with Good Dog, Man with Hat and Lustre cookie monster Untouched surface

Untouched surface

which I have not bothered to trim but which could easily be trimmed or covered with a mat when framed

(I have not cleaned him)

with works including "A Soldier's Dream

held in the perfect period frame

Fetching! 1820s Transferware Child's Cup with Good Dog, Man with Hat and Lustre cookie monster Untouched surfaceAnother week another early 19th c. Staffordshire childs mug, because good ones keep crossing my path, and I've always got a close eye out for them, too. At this point I look mostly for ones I've never seen with text or imagery that strikes me as especially clever or fetching. And fetching this one is, with sweet dog swimming back to shore, stick retrieved. Unusual is that the center of the hat held by the dog's human companion is actually rendered in