Essex Crystal Style White Cat Stick Pin eye exam Painting: 17 3/4" x 13

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

numbered 1-15 plus a white unnumbered one

I love the various framing devices that position the woman—who

which at least according to one source were used to carry cooked food to monasteries—an offer to the monks as an act of merit-earning

MA mansion at the estate sale of a former Hollywood actress

Essex Crystal Style White Cat Stick Pin eye exam Painting: 17 3/4" x 13I 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,