NORWEGIAN, LATE 17TH CENTURY

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A CARVED BIRCH PEG AND EBONY-MOUNTED LIDDED TANKARD
NORWEGIAN, LATE 17TH CENTURY
The lid inset with an ebony medallion depicting a crowned prancing lion; the body carved in relief with wild animals, a hunter and foliate decoration; the underside indistinctly inscribed in ink '3827' (?)
4.7/8 in. (12.5 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The present tankard is closely comparable to a sycamore maple tankard in the Royal Danish Kunstkammer, National Museum, Copenhagen (B. Gundestrup, The Royal Danish Kunstkammer 1737, Denmark, 1991, p. 319, no. 2 D 101). It also has very similar foliate decoration to a Norwegian burr birch peg tankard formerly in the Syd Levethan collection and which was sold at Christie's, London, 11 June 2010, lot 1010 for £39,650.

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