Sailor-made rolling pin, ladle and two turned salt cellars 19th century
The rolling pin with turned walrus tusk handles, the ladle with coconut bowl and bone handle modeled as a dog head having baleen banding, and the cellars of turned whale ivory on tortoiseshell base, lucite mounting.
Provenance: Turned salt cellars: Sotheby's, The Barbara Johnson Whaling Collection: Part III, April 29 & 30, 1983, Lot 322.
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer.
The rolling pin with turned walrus tusk handles, the ladle with coconut bowl and bone handle modeled as a dog head having baleen banding, and the cellars of turned whale ivory on tortoiseshell base, lucite mounting.
L: 15 in. (rolling pin)
Provenance: Turned salt cellars: Sotheby's, The Barbara Johnson Whaling Collection: Part III, April 29 & 30, 1983, Lot 322.
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer.
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The rolling pin with turned walrus tusk handles, the ladle with coconut bowl and bone handle modeled as a dog head having baleen banding, and the cellars of turned whale ivory on tortoiseshell base, lucite mounting.
Provenance: Turned salt cellars: Sotheby's, The Barbara Johnson Whaling Collection: Part III, April 29 & 30, 1983, Lot 322.
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer.
The rolling pin with turned walrus tusk handles, the ladle with coconut bowl and bone handle modeled as a dog head having baleen banding, and the cellars of turned whale ivory on tortoiseshell base, lucite mounting.
L: 15 in. (rolling pin)
Provenance: Turned salt cellars: Sotheby's, The Barbara Johnson Whaling Collection: Part III, April 29 & 30, 1983, Lot 322.
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer.