Train a Child in the Way He Should Go...C. Late 18th C. English Blue on White Motto Dish pottery cup including a couple of gold

including a couple of gold griffins perched on high in the background

) star and heart (with crown atop I believe) on one side

13 5/8” x 5

it feels a bit more like one carved by a prisoner than an end-of-the-day leisurely whittler

Train a Child in the Way He Should Go...C. Late 18th C. English Blue on White Motto Dish pottery cup including a couple of goldWonderful. I'm forever looking for unusual early motto dishes with this manner of lettering pre dating the c. 1830s Staffordshire child's mugs and the like I typically find by a couple of decades I believe; extra lovely and extra special feeling. I can find no likeness of this one out there anywhere beautifully executed in this blue against white with a border I'd describe as berries on branch but looking a bit weeping willow esque too. (And also a