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A chestnut snuff mortar and pestle
of tulip-shape, on a circular foot, English, 18th century, the mortar -- 5 1/8in. (13cm) high, the pestle -- 6½in. (16.5cm) long
See Illustration. (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.

For a comparative example see Sotheby's the W.J. Shepherd Collection of Treen, 30 November 1983, lot 469.

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