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LOT 1849
Post Medieval Wooden Carving of a Walking Gentleman
CIRCA 19TH CENTURY A.D.
18 1/2 in. (1.76 kg, 47 cm high).
Dressed in a peaked cap, smock, ankle-length trousers and clogs, standing holding a churchwarden smoking pipe to his mouth with his left hand and with his right hand leaning on a stout walking stick; coopered pannier to his back with contents partly protruding at the top, small basket beside his right foot, octagonal base with recess to the underside; probable Dutch workmanship. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
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