Live Auction 1154Syd Levethan: The Longridge Collection
A Louis XIV boxwood snuff rasp
Lot 270

A Louis XIV boxwood snuff rasp

EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Closed3 November 2011

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GBP 2,500

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A Louis XIV boxwood snuff rasp
Early 18th century
Of typical tapering outline, carved in relief with the figures of two vintners bottling wine from barrels, the reverse inset with a wrought iron grater within a chip carved border, the cresting gouged with the name CHARLE COLLET
8¾ in. (22.3 cm.) long; 2¾ in. (7 cm.) wide

With A. & E. Foster, Naphill, Buckinghamshire, June 1998.

Specialist note

See Edward H. Pinto, Treen and Other Wooden Bygones, London, 1969, section XXII, fig. 371-7.