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LATE 16TH CENTURY
Details
A SOUTH GERMAN OR NORTH ITALIAN BOXWOOD LEVER ACTION NUTCRACKER
LATE 16TH CENTURY
Modelled as a gentleman in a peaked hat, the handles carved with fruiting vines, intarsia decoration and an interlaced band to the reverse above a scaled body and head of a dragon
8 in. (20 cm.) high
LATE 16TH CENTURY
Modelled as a gentleman in a peaked hat, the handles carved with fruiting vines, intarsia decoration and an interlaced band to the reverse above a scaled body and head of a dragon
8 in. (20 cm.) high
Provenance
With Alistair Sampson, London, June 1998.
Special notice
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