lime wood sculpture black forest museum quality humidor / tobacco centre piece carved with 22 gnomes

An exceptional very fine carved Lime Wood Black Forest Museum Quality Humidor / Tobacco Centre Piece Carved with 22 Gnomes, 3 snakes, 3 lizards, 1 toad and 5 snails sitting on a mountain.
Carved with nineteen Gnomes who are drinking dancing and making music and with one other gnome with a normal model hat and two mountain top carved with faces, one of them is drinking out of a wine glass offered by a gnome.
Exceptional very large Centre Piece,
Total height including lid 74cm base diameter 28cm
In excellent original condition, Still in the original condition, some old repairs and still with the original old patination, no pieces missing.
£ 17,500

Antiques.co.uk Ref: F7CEF4UF

Materials:

carved lime wood

Width (cm):

28

Height (cm):

74

Depth (cm):

28

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koos limburg jnr

Koos limburg jnr. was born in the Netherlands, but since 1994 lives in Scotland.   Over those years he has build up a well established and well respected antique business by participation only on important antique fairs in the uk as well as at the continent.   Koos specialises in high quality antiques over the whole range, with the result that he has sold many items to museums whole over the world.   That’s why his slogan is: “”or the new collector and the museum director.”   Koos has a specialist knowledge for all the antiques he offers for sale. His fair display is well known and he is renowned for his imposing artistic and dramatic presentation stands in which he displays his collection of antiques, reflecting their excellent quality.   He does not want to be identified as a specialist in one particular field or another, with the result that you can find anything and everything on his stand, covering the whole range of rare and unusual quality items of interest to the first time collector up to the museum director.   His parents have been very influential in supporting him and have imbued him a detailed knowledge of, and a huge enthusiasm for the antiques business.   Koos feels extremely privileged to have access to such invaluable expertise and guidance together with access to a well stocked family library about works of art and antiques to enable him to carry out detailed research.   Koos guarantees to any potential collector that they are in experienced and reputable hands and that all items displayed have been thoroughly researched by him.

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