AN ITALIAN CARVED FRUITWOOD MONKEY DUMBWAITER

AN ITALIAN CARVED FRUITWOOD MONKEY DUMBWAITER

VENETIAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY

the monkey crouching on a rockwork base, wearing Renaissance style clothes and holding a platter relief carved, with script

144.5cm high

Catalogue Note

For a very similar dumbwaiter, sold in these rooms, see Furniture Works of Art & Clocks, 6th July 2021, Lot 464, sold for £4,800 (hammer)