Lot 623
623
A fine English carved boxwood snuff box, 18th century
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A fine English carved boxwood snuff box, 18th century

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A fine English carved boxwood snuff box, 18th century
in the form of a partridge and her chicks, modelled as an allegory of the Pelican in her Peity, inset with glass eyes, the hinged back with scallop shell catch, traces of polychrome -- 4½in. (11.5cm.) wide
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Lot Essay

Mrs Jameson, Sacred and Legendary Art, (1848) Introd. 36 ...The pelican tearing open her breast to feed her young with her own blood, was an early symbol of our own redemption through Christ.
OED. This fable is given by Epiphanius and St Augustine; it appears to be of Egyptian origin, and to have referred originally to another bird.

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