Louisa Popeney, Pennsylvania Antique 1880s Signed Autograph Book blue and white pitcher While I’d like to imagine

While I’d like to imagine the maker of the vessel had Magritte’s famous painting “The Treachery of Images” in mind

it reveals itself slowly

and would once have been sold along with a milk truck

but most of these temple toys date from the late 1800s through the early 1900s and I would guess the same on this one

the glaze appears to have been applied while the pot was turned upside down

Louisa Popeney, Pennsylvania Antique 1880s Signed Autograph Book blue and white pitcher While I’d like to imagineWhat I love so much about this antique autograph book, owned by a Louise Popeney and started in 1881, is the wit of many of those who signed it, and how muchlike a high school yearbookit reveals of the times. Among my personal favorites: Alas, alas, I am so dumb I cannot write in this album, and Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe. But there are so many good ones. And on the second to last page, clever Fannie writes Last of all came