Rare 19th Century Lustreware Ale Measure with Transfers marble fruit then tries to eliminate all

then tries to eliminate all the rest by jumping them

while the bottom half features a much wider band of birch bark

Quintessentially mid-century Scandinavian

I love how wispy and delicate it looks here

Rare 19th Century Lustreware Ale Measure with Transfers marble fruit then tries to eliminate allI really love antique children's cups incorporating transfer text, but this is the first cup without a handle I've found, which, given the poem on one side, it didn't take me too long to figure out is an ale measure! I can't find its match out there, but I did find a few lustreware graduated sets of three, so perhaps this was once part of a set, 19th c. British I am sure. I love the combination of drinking poem on one side paired with image of mother