19th C. Lustreware Child's Cup with Hand-painted Thumbprint Bird and Branch handmade clay marbles and a few stains

and a few stains

There is no ball included

I'm not a great one for holiday decorating

sometimes called knife or utensil boxes

with this long

19th C. Lustreware Child's Cup with Hand-painted Thumbprint Bird and Branch handmade clay marbles and a few stainsAnother week another 19th c. child's cup, this one with pink lustre around the rim and detailing the handle, c. 1830s or so I believe, What makes it for me of course is this hand painted bird on green leafy branch, and particularly that the orange body of the bird appears to have been made of a fingerprint. Something about fingerprints captured from one particular person at one particular moment that have time travelled in this case nearly two