Essex Crystal Style White Cat Stick Pin eye exam but have since learned there

but have since learned there is a long history of vessels like this--the earliest example British and dating back to the 1300s--with holes around the lip

I'd think it has well over a hundred years on it but remains in fine structural shape

) measures 3 3/8" t x 2 1/8" w as point of reference

MA mansion at the estate sale of a former Hollywood actress

The unusual vertical orientation evinces a sense of strata

Essex Crystal Style White Cat Stick Pin eye exam but have since learned thereI didn't know these were a thing, but have learned that they very much are, some quite finely done, this one more humble but I think pretty charming still. Essex crystals are also known as 'reverse intaglios, ' made of a cabochon of colourless rock quartz that has been carved on the flat side after which the details of the design are painted, creating a three dimensional 'trompe l'oeil effect'. I believe that is the case here, or at least it was made,