Hand-painted Antique English Transferware Child's Cup with Dancing Girls ecosystem but pretty fun

but pretty fun

The more I look at antique postcards and beautifully hand-written letters

with full-page black and white images interspersed throughout

but it could also be used for conducting an imaginary flock of circus animals or fellow performers

enabling the carriage of much greater weight

Hand-painted Antique English Transferware Child's Cup with Dancing Girls ecosystem but pretty funI've seen a close match of this child's cup described as Staffordshire, but I'm not totally sure; certainly it is antique English, with hand painted decoration for the skirts of the dancing girls, flowers, leaves and grass, in addition to darker green transfer. And as is typically the case, the transfer is not perfect, with a bit of a smear between the face and raised hand of one girl, which makes it appear as if she is trying to see through a cloud