A TREEN BOXWOOD PRIMITIVE FIGURAL NUTCRACKER

A TREEN BOXWOOD PRIMITIVE FIGURAL NUTCRACKER

LATE 17TH / EARLY 18TH CENTURY

with a lever action, in the form of a faun-like man with a flat face and pointed ears, sporting a bow tie with a frock coat and breaches

19.8cm high

Provenance

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Catalogue Note

See Woolley & Wallis, Furniture and Works of Art, 6th July 2016, lots 51, 54 and 55 and 4th July 2018 lot 66 for similar examples. Also, Jonathan Levi, 'Treen for the Table', p.168, pl.12/23 for a similar nutcracker.