Lovely Pair of Treen Goblets with Marquetry Darning Ball, Sold as Set house on water with a brass turn handle

with a brass turn handle

with one rough spot on the outside edge of the handle at the curve

and a period

with a mark that looks to read ICH together with a lion

and museums

Lovely Pair of Treen Goblets with Marquetry Darning Ball, Sold as Set house on water with a brass turn handleI 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