Wonderful c. 1890 Very Rare John Jay (1st Supreme Court Justice) Figural Vesta with Striker Reese's brass stencils with that round and deep

with that round and deep lower half offset by its dramatically sloping lid which doubles as a handle

and whoever made him put quite an extraordinary effort into decorating most every inch of his knit body with thousands of tiny French knots

3 7/8" t x 1 5/8" in diameter

From the website of Shrine Gallery

and with one arm lost along the way

Wonderful c. 1890 Very Rare John Jay (1st Supreme Court Justice) Figural Vesta with Striker Reese's brass stencils with that round and deepI don't use google image searches perhaps as much as I should (though most things I sell don't turn up very useful matches) but fortuitously I did a search on this one to learn that the wonderful head in question is the likeness of founding father John Jay (1745 1829), appointed by George Washington as the first justice of the Supreme Court making it feel especially timely! Based on the only one other I found out there anywhere (listed at $1500), i