Very pretty antique child's cup with cute graphics of a boy and girl with two animals, a sheep and goose. Marked on underside "Leuchtenburg Germany" with a graphic of a castle turret. Made of china or porcelain (this piece is translucent), round, measuring about 3 5/8 inches greatest width (including outer handle), about 2 3/4 inches top diameter, and about 1 3/4 inches underside base diameter. This child's cup or mug sits about 2 1/2 inches in height. From the style and type, we believe this to be an antique piece (minimally a vintage child's cup), likely dating to the early 1900's. This was found out of a home.

The multi-color graphics encircle about half the cup with the remainder left blank. The order on the cup shows the white sheep first, followed by the boy dressed in what may be a shepherd's type outfit as he is carrying a curved shepherd's staff and wearing a broad-rimmed hat, followed by a white goose, and ending with a girl in a bonnet and skirt carrying what looks like a plate or dish of bread or simple cake. The cup has a white base coloring with pink highlighting near the rim and a bit of pink on the handle.

Porcelain child's cup was made with a slight fluting to the upper edge (it is not a smooth round circular top although the form is definitely circular) and raised in-mold design on the outside near the top edge in a repetitive arch form with raised dots. As made, this raised design was not evenly done around the cup with a large smooth section missing this design along the top in the area about midway from the sheep to midway of the boy. This is not wear on the cup but a manufacturing flaw (there is no wear in the paint pink coloring here). Perhaps the porcelain wasn't fully applied in the mold or there was an error in the mold. The cup itself has the same porcelain weight/width here as in the rest of the cup, it is just missing this in-mold raised design here. A similar arching and dot pattern is molded in the porcelain around the base of the cup. This lower raised design appears all around the cup but is noticeably less raised/flatter along the base under the handle. There is also a molded raised dot pattern on the upwardly curved outer handle.

We've provided 8 images to show the graphics and cup from multiple angles, as well as the mark on the underside. Please note that the camera lighting creates white "hot spots" on the high gloss porcelain.

While this is a nifty piece with a great look, there is a small chip along the outer top rim, roughly circular, measuring about 3/16 inch in width. The chip has a pink center surrounded by the white porcelain. It is noticeable in several of the images so please use the zoom feature to examine closely. Beyond this, the cup shows other minor wear expected for its age, with some minor flaking/chipping on the underside base on which the cup sits (not bad but there), a touch of wear to the graphics/paint (but not bad at all, some tiny white dots, rubbed spots, etc.), some dots/pin dots/dark dots, rubbed spots, lines in the porcelain (we believe these may be as made, there are no hairlines and no crazing), etc. Nothing unexpected and supportive of the age of this piece. The inside of the cup is very clean so we don't know if this piece was ever used.