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

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

As Puget Sound is mentioned I'd think its maker was from the Pacific Northwest

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

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

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,