SOLD Elizabeth Spurgin's Best and Most Singular Old Lace and Crochet Samples Book I've Ever Seen! glazed pottery vase with some sort of cultivating

with some sort of cultivating or harvesting tool in hand

I'd call it a "make do" version of a punch/perforated paper embroidery

with a barrel form

12 1/4" l x 6 3/4" w x 5 1/4" t

while also making  a good pedestal of sorts for other things

SOLD Elizabeth Spurgin's Best and Most Singular Old Lace and Crochet Samples Book I've Ever Seen! glazed pottery vase with some sort of cultivatingA true treasure, this one a trove of many many treasures, really, and the manifestation of a lifetime's accumulation of lacemaking knowledge by a Ms. Elizabeth Reasoner Spurgin (1842 1927), who handed the book down to her daughter, Estella Eeels, in 1914. The first inside page of the book provides a full, typewritten provenance, right down to the album's loan to Nemaha County Museum in 1990 from Nathan Eells of Ogallala, Nebraska. Photos give a good