Lot 215

A NORWEGIAN BURR BIRCH PEG TANKARD DATED 1671

Attributed to the workshop of Samuel Halvorsen Fanden, circa 1670
Initials incised to the underside ‘SHS’ and date, the hinged cover carved with a monkey drummer playing a horn encircled by scrolling leaf and fruit border, imbricated s-scroll handle with rosettes to the thumbpiece, the cylindrical body carved with three laurel framed cartouches, each figure depicted in the pursuit of drinking, eating and smoking, raised on feet carved as hops, metal peg to the interior, 16.5cm high

Estimate:	£1,500 - £2,500
Hammer price:	£12,000

Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

For comparable examples see Syn Leventhan: The Longridge Collection, Christie's London, lot 1010, 10 June 2010; Sotheby’s, lot 69, 7 December 2010, and Woolley & Wallis, lot 124, 3 July 2012.

Sotheby’s note a comparable tankard, dated 1663, marked with the same initials ‘SHS’, decorated with similar laurel cartouches. Sotheby’s attributed lot 69 to the workshop of Samuel Halvorsen Fanden. See P. Gjaerder,Norse Drikkekar av tre, Oslo, 1982, page 339, fig. 706.

Condition report:

The rosette is loose and has been temporarily secured in some images. It is with the lot.

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