A Sri Lanka ivory ear pick, in the form of a mythical bird like creature with black inlaid eyes, its feathers descending into scrolls and terminating in a scoop, 18th / early 19th century.
Provenance: Phillips Son & Neal, London, 1999.
Cf. A Coomaraswamy, Medieval Sinhalese Art, London 1908, pl.XL for other ear picks of this type.
