Lovely Pair of Treen Goblets with Marquetry Darning Ball, Sold as Set old working duck decoy graceful and tender piece

graceful and tender piece

8 1/2" across at handles

Running in the opposite direction are a variety of partial page weavings with vertical orientations woven in browns and yellows and creams

almost with the feel of trench art pieces

Housed in a wonderful

Lovely Pair of Treen Goblets with Marquetry Darning Ball, Sold as Set old working duck decoy graceful and tender pieceI 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