19th Century Public School Certificates of Merit pottery bird dish The level of detail and

The level of detail and the interplay between form and surface treatment on this contemporary ceramic vessel is sophisticated and surprising

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numerous flowers

interplay of positive and negative/light and dark

19th Century Public School Certificates of Merit pottery bird dish The level of detail andI think these are just wonderful, and who doesn't know someone who could use a little recognition of their merits?! These were awarded to a young "Master Charley Geoppinger" in the late 1870s or so by a couple of different teachers two of them for a hundred merits, one for twenty, one for 15 and two for three. I believe these would have been saved to either cash in for some prize, reward, or further honor, but I am not certain precisely what. I really