Thou God Seest Me, 19th C.Sunderland Lustre Painted Transferware Plaque with All Seeing Eye mark cross soccer ball with a little wear around

with a little wear around the edges of the squirrel cutouts

I really like ones like this where you viscerally feel the hand of the maker whittling away

which kept me returning to it when recently roaming around an antique shop in Maine

with a B below for Brenda

Thou God Seest Me, 19th C.Sunderland Lustre Painted Transferware Plaque with All Seeing Eye mark cross soccer ball with a little wear aroundI come across 19th c Sunderland lustreware transferware plaques along the lines of this one occasionally, and always covet them, but it is the all seeing eye at top that really sold me on this one. And it is in mint condition, to boot. I'm not religious in the least, but do love phrases like this, which comes from the Bible, Genesis 16: 13, in which Hagar (an Egyptian servant girl) says it to God after he meets her in distress which I choose to