CIRCA 1700

Details

A NORTH EUROPEAN BOXWOOD NUTCRACKER
CIRCA 1700
Carved in the form of a female figure displaying a foetus.
6¼ in. (16 cm.) high

Provenance

The Jonathan Levi Collection; Christie's, South Kensington, 8 November 2006, lot 103.

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Lot Essay

A comparable example was sold, The Jonathan Levi Collection; Christie's, South Kensington, 8 November 2006, lot 103.
A similar example is illustrated in Owen Evan-Thomas, Domestic Utensils of Wood, Hertford, 1973, p. 126, pl. 49, fig. A and E.

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