That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 25, 2021

Ever the devoted granddaughter, Eleanor would check up on her nana every now and then.

“Wait a minute, this is a cookie jar! Where’s Grandma’s ashes?”

Don’t sneeze, or you’ll get grandpa all over that blouse.

“Reply hazy, try again.”

After the “incident” Maggie always made sure to put the lid on the thunder mug before she took it to the window to empty it!

An unabashed pinchpenny, Stella habitually looked in on her “urnings.”

Bill always had trouble drawing eyes properly, so he invented a thousand strategies to make his models close theirs.

butter…

Tang Dynasty my foot. Says made in Pittsburgh.

Lady Farthingswood, about to discover that the blasted chambermaid again forgot to service the chamberpot.

Milady was seen to recoil/ Was something beginning to spoil ?/It turned out she was not/ (by a damned long shot !)/ the first to drop in some night soil.

Pandora just doesn’t know when to quit !!! First there was 2020 and now she’s at it again. Will somebody Superglue that lid on???¿¿¿

“Jeannie! You come out of there this instant!”

Fanny Brawne speculating on what does a Grecian Urn?

Her pay. Funny, she doesn’t look Greek

She was caught raiding the cookie jar. The oil painting ‘snapped’ at the moment provided indisputable proof.

Looks like she’s high enough already. Just taking a whiff – she just can’t resist.

It looks to me like he painted from photographs

For the talent portion of the Miss Victorian Age beauty contest Midred shows her extraordinary vase plugging ability.

“Alas, poor Yorrick, I knew him well…”

Pandora considers an upgrade to something more Japanese Minimalist.

“Granpa? Is that you?”

Mildred didn’t know whether to curse her huge mitts or her idea to put the cookies in a jar with such a small opening. She never thought to consider cursing her inability to think to turn the jar upside down.

“Okay, now think!” “How did that story go about the greedy monkey trying to grab all the cookies at once.”

Happened to me twice. Now that its legal here, its like zucchini. Its more likely to appear unexpectedly than to get stolen.

“that wasn’t herb tea, that was Herb!” — Judge Harold T. Stone… cut to Dan Fielding doing spit take

What…who…I had my last condom in here!

“This is a ginger jar…But that sure doesn’t smell like ginger!”

Where the heck did Uncle John’s ashes go?

This isn’t what I ordered! I wanted some of those Russian nesting Matryoshka dolls!

The stuff that dreams are made of.

The Blue Jar or The Oriental Jar: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Blue_Jar_by_William_McGregor_Paxton.jpg 

(best viewed with Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) has info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. Other versions has strip coloration image.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/paxton_william_mcgregor.html 

https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/1010 

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/31974 

https://www.askart.com/artist/William_McGregor_Paxton/23608/William_McGregor_Paxton.aspx 

http://thebostonschoolofpainting.blogspot.com/2011/06/william-mcgregor-paxton.html 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, askart.com can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 3 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2015/03/26?comments=visible 

has the prior, which while my comment is still there, with the line breaks removed, its 12 hyperlinks remain inactive, ?&@#!#%&!, but the text may be informative.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2627 (January 24, 2021) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Melonie having lost her cookies, looked every where for them, too no avail.