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A RARE COMMONWEALTH LIGNUM VITAE AND MARINE IVORY COFFEE GRINDER
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A RARE COMMONWEALTH LIGNUM VITAE AND MARINE IVORY COFFEE GRINDER

CIRCA 1650

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A RARE COMMONWEALTH LIGNUM VITAE AND MARINE IVORY COFFEE GRINDER
CIRCA 1650
Of 'lighthouse' form, the cylindrical body with punched bands of ornament on a gadrooned foot below a later associated acorn finial, the marine ivory hopper incised and punched with conforming ornament
9¼in. (23.5cm.) high overall
Provenance
Russell Baldwin & Bright Auctions, Leominster, 22 January, 1998. Levi Collection number 1006.
Literature
Jonathan Levi, Treen for the Table, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1998. Page 118, pl.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Comparative Literature:
Owen Evan-Thomas, Domestic Utensils of Wood, Stobart-Davies, Hertford 1973. Comparison can be made to the gadrooned and punched decorations of the 17th century coffee grinders illustrated in plate 32.

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