Side 1: Courting couple (meeting of lovers); couple embracing; youth chucking his lover under the chin; couple playing chess; youth and ladies.
Side 2: Hunting scene; hunter spearing a boar.
Hybrid creatures.
Unpublished.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved on both sides.
Object Condition
Numerous broken teeth.
Provenance
Found during the demolition of Scofton Hall, Nottinghamshire in 1800, where it is said to have been discovered wedged in the roof timbers (Scofton was acquired by Francis Ferrand Foljambe in the same year, from the Sutton family; the site of the hall lies within the grounds of Osberton Manor); collection of G. M. T. Foljambe, Esq.: Christie's, London, 18 June 1968, lot 170.
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