Lovely Pair of Treen Goblets with Marquetry Darning Ball, Sold as Set house on water and museums

and museums

which I especially love for its stoicism and the manner in which it so matter of factly references a history that has since been dispelled

I love the curvaceousness o this one

with a brass turn handle

but such a lovely one I think

Lovely Pair of Treen Goblets with Marquetry Darning Ball, Sold as Set house on water and museumsI believe these treen goblets would be described as stickware turned from a block composed of two different alternating woods, yielding the stripe pattern. I don't always pay much attention to treen cups like this, but these I found particularly lovely, with nice detailing on the stems, and they appear to be early ones to me. And I'd been sitting on this lovely old darning ball, which seemed the perfect complement, so I'm selling as a set including