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Collections > Wood Carving
Over 700 architectural carvings including rare altar pieces.
Box
Box of pearwood, the sides and top carved with panels of acanthus scrolls, the lid showing a monogram beneath a coronet and some birds. The box shows a narrow flaring... view details
Wooden Casket
Octagonal shape carved and painted with gilt of mermaids, spiral columns, heads of amorini, leaves and fruit, then added with five decorated enamel plaques. Size: 21... view details
Figure
A monk carrying a bottle in his right hand, a basket over his right hand, a basket over his left arm and a basket on his back. Size: Height: 14.5 cm view details
Scent Flask
Scent flask in the form of a shoe with figures and trees. The screw-on lid is surmounted by a sitting amorino. Size: 8.2 xx 8 x 4 cm (approx). view details
Butter Mould
Oval butter mould, of carved boxwood, the face carved with a design of two impaled coats of arms, each in an oval, beneath a coronet. Size: Length: 11.2 cm. view details
Flask
Carved with panels containing respectively a lyre and two helmets. Set with two red stones like eyes to give the whole flask the semblance of a grotesque face. Size:... view details
Nutcrackers
In the form of a grotesque carnival-like figure in a turban. The handle hinges at the back so that the nut is cracked by the mouth. Size: Height: 21 cm (approx.) view details
Relief
Circular relief. Shoulder and left profile of a man with writhing hair, beard and moustache. He is wearing a hat with a plume. Size: Height: 15.8 cm. view details
Group: Three small nude boys in a tub. (The emblem of St. Nicholas)
Carved in pearwood with dark stain. A hole underneath, with remains of dowel, indicates that this was part of a larger carving, or a finial. One boy shows folded... view details
Figure: "Lion of Lucerne"
Figure of a lion carved in sycamore, a miniature copy of Thorivaldsen's "Lion of Lucerne". The recumbent, dying lion with a broken stake in its side lies beside two... view details