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A treen snuff pestle and mortar
the mortar of inverted baluster form, with simple reeded ornament, on a moulded foot, the pestle with knop handle, English, 18th century, the mortar -- 4½in. (11.5cm) high, the pestle -- 5 5/8in. (14.3cm) long (2)

Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Edward H. Pinto, Treen and Other Wooden Bygones, Bell & Hyman, London 1969. Page 182, similar examples illustrated plate 178.
Owen Evan-Thomas, Domestic Utensils of Wood, Stobart Davies, Hertford 1973. Pages 69-70, similar examples illustrated plate 26.
Comparative examples sold Sotheby's the W.J. Shepherd Collection of Treen, 30 November 1983, lot 496. These rooms from the Collection of the late Sir Ambrose Heal, 5 July 1995, lot 755.

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