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Lot Essay
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Edward H. Pinton, Treen and Other Wooden Bygones, Bell and Hyman, London, 1969. Section IX., comparable examples illustrated plates 158-164.
Owen Evan-Thomas, Domestic Utensils of Wood, Stobart Davies, Hertford, 1973. Pages 144-151, comparable examples illustrated plates 56-58.
Jonathan Levi, Treen for the Table, Antique Collector's Club, Woodbridge Suffolk, 1998. Comparable examples illustrated and discussed pages 124-127.
The combination of a looking glass and the 'bird cage' appears to be relatively rare, none of the above illustrate an example with such a union.
Edward H. Pinton, Treen and Other Wooden Bygones, Bell and Hyman, London, 1969. Section IX., comparable examples illustrated plates 158-164.
Owen Evan-Thomas, Domestic Utensils of Wood, Stobart Davies, Hertford, 1973. Pages 144-151, comparable examples illustrated plates 56-58.
Jonathan Levi, Treen for the Table, Antique Collector's Club, Woodbridge Suffolk, 1998. Comparable examples illustrated and discussed pages 124-127.
The combination of a looking glass and the 'bird cage' appears to be relatively rare, none of the above illustrate an example with such a union.