Train a Child in the Way He Should Go...C. Late 18th C. English Blue on White Motto Dish gift for host 7 1/4" l x 4

7 1/4" l x 4 1/2" t x 3 1/16" d

the New York based artist who made and signed this (circa 1970s I believe) pot

hand-carved

The slide top fits perfectly

with whiskers that look like arrows pointing towards his nose

Train a Child in the Way He Should Go...C. Late 18th C. English Blue on White Motto Dish gift for host 7 1/4" l x 4Wonderful. I'm forever looking for unusual early motto dishes with this manner of lettering pre dating the c. 1830s Staffordshire child's mugs and the like I typically find by a couple of decades I believe; extra lovely and extra special feeling. I can find no likeness of this one out there anywhere beautifully executed in this blue against white with a border I'd describe as berries on branch but looking a bit weeping willow esque too. (And also a