A PAIR OF ITALIAN CARVED AND PAINTED MONKEY WAITERS

A PAIR OF ITALIAN CARVED AND PAINTED MONKEY WAITERS

VENETIAN, MID-19TH CENTURY

each modelled perched on a pile of rocks, with his tail wrapped around a tree trunk and holding out a platter, wearing a painted and gilded Renaissance style costume (2)

144cm high (max)

Catalogue Note

For a similar single walnut figure, see Woolley and Wallis, Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks, 6th July 2021, lot 464.