Cameleopard! Super Scarce 19th C. British Transfer Decorated Child's Mug soft green with these two riders in

with these two riders in their bright colors on these spotted/dappled horses with front legs raised reminding one a lot of the grace and clarity and graphicness of Native American ledger drawings

glued to two additional pieces of wood on the underside

it may have been produced by another maker

while the details of hood

And a harp and horns

Cameleopard! Super Scarce 19th C. British Transfer Decorated Child's Mug soft green with these two riders inI did not know that the giraffes were once called Cameleopards, but I sure was delighted to have this tiny 19th c. British child's (or doll's?) mug be the thing to teach me of that fact made to teach, and still imparting lessons centuries later! Cameleopard, I've learned, is the more traditional English expression for a giraffe, deriving from the Greek from kmlos camel and prdalis leopard which remained in common use in England until the late 19th