CIRCA 1680

Details

A CHARLES II LIGNUM VITAE PESTLE AND MORTAR WITH COVER
CIRCA 1680
The mortar and cover -- 4½in. (11.5cm.) high; the pestle -- 6 7/8in. (17.5cm.) long (2)

Provenance

Purchased from Ted Few Antiques, April 1990. Levi Collection number 228.

Literature

Jonathan Levi, Treen for the Table, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1998. Page 111, pl.

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Lot Essay

Levi describes this mortar and pestle as extremely rare, having its original lid and pestle. He describes it as similar, but very much smaller than the one in the Pinto Collection in Birmingham, illustrated figure 33 in Edward H. Pinto, Treen and other Wooden Bygones, Bell and Hyman, London 1969.

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