Forever Shaking, c. 18th Century Delftware Tile with Perfectly Smeared Hand-painted Dancing Couple wax valentine and 19th c

and 19th c

which I think are almost as lovely as the fronts

The form is that of a canteen

and 52 more letters on top of that

or else not far across the border to a neighboring state

Forever Shaking, c. 18th Century Delftware Tile with Perfectly Smeared Hand-painted Dancing Couple wax valentine and 19th cA happy accident this one, with what I believe was a smear to the rendering of the two figures literally baked into the tile several centuries ago! The effect, to my eye, is to add even more vigor to their dancing, as if they're forever shaking their whole bodies with a sort of maniacal exhuberance! Which somehow feels especially right for a Delft tile immediately recognizable things, iconic really, and made to laid in larger groups, such that their