A COLLECTION OF FOUR PIECES OF TURNED LIGNUM VITAE TREEN
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A COLLECTION OF FOUR PIECES OF TURNED LIGNUM VITAE TREEN

18TH 19TH CENTURY

细节
A COLLECTION OF FOUR PIECES OF TURNED LIGNUM VITAE TREEN
18th 19th Century
Comprising: three various coffee-grinders, each with ring-turned decoration, one with acorn finial, the others with ring-turned baluster finial, one with top section of finial replaced, together with a master salt with ring-turned spreading foot, the two larger grinders with steel turning-handle
9¾ in. (25 cm.) high and smaller (4)
来源
Bought from Norman Adams at the Antique Dealers' Fair, Grosvenor House, June 1982 or 1983.
注意事项
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拍品专文

E.H. Pinto suggests in Treen and other wooden bygones, London, 1969, p. 181, that the type of tall coffee grinder (on the right of the illustration) dates from early in the 18th century.