Lot 145

African Carved Wood Mortar and Pestle (20th Century)

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Lot 145
African Carved Wood Mortar and Pestle (20th Century)
Description
A hand-carved ethnographic hardwood grain mortar and coordinating double-ended club pestle, the cylindrical mortar vessel featuring a hollowed deep basin over a slightly cinched center waist and thick perimeter walls displaying prominent adze tooling marks throughout
Details
Hardwood
mortar: 24 x 14 x 12 inches
pestle (length): 40 inches
Provenance
From a Sniffen Court Collection
Condition
Fair condition; deep stable vertical desiccation splits running down the exterior carcass of the mortar, localized blunt impact splintering along the upper interior basin rims, and extensive stable wood checking with rounded mechanical wear to the terminal nodes of the pestle from historical agricultural utilization


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