Essex Crystal Style White Cat Stick Pin eye exam I'd think it has well

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

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 love the various framing devices that position the woman—who

Painting: 17 3/4" x 13 3/4"

but making one wonder a bit about the context in which this was made and hung

Essex Crystal Style White Cat Stick Pin eye exam I'd think it has wellI 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,