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Sculptural Early Mortar & Pestle with Ironwork
Ref: 4625
Made as an object for use, but with a timeless sculptural presence, a hardwood mortar and pestle, 96 high with the pestle and 75cm high without. Sculpture..when the Romanian artist Brancusi referred to his avant garde creations as ‘Ideal' and ‘classic’ he was not referring to the new forms of the machine age as some thought but recalling the artefacts like this that he had seen in his childhood.
Carpathians 18th/19th cent.
H: 96cm (37.8in)
W: 25cm (9.8in)
D: 22cm (8.7in)
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