This English-made soft paste pottery waste bowl was originally part of a larger tea set. Waste bowls, aka slop bowls, were used for pouring out the remaining cold tea before pouring another cup of tea. It has a cobalt blue & white transfer decoration of a bee skep in a bucolic pastoral setting
The many cracks on the sides have been stabilized by the careful addition of small ridged metal staples, which appear to be machine made
A single bent metal staple affixed to the underside acts as a crutch and ingeniously supports the broken base
Bowl measures 2-1/2″ high with a dimeter of 4-1/8″
Tags: blue & white, English, pottery, soft paste, staples/rivets, transferware