2ND HALF 17TH CENTURY

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AN ENGLISH BOXWOOD LEVER ACTION NUTCRACKER
2ND HALF 17TH CENTURY
Carved with a primitive face and prominent chin
6 in. (15 cm.) high

来源

With A. & E. Foster, Naphill, Buckinghamshire, December 1988.

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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A comparable example dated 1667 was sold in The Longridge Collection; Christie's, London, 10 June 2010, lot 1029.

A further example with a similar doleful expression is illustrated in Edward Pinto, Treen and other Wooden Bygones, London, 1969, section IV, pl. 74, fig. B.