Description
A Group of Six Items of Antique Treen; Go-to-Beds etc: A Regency turned fruitwood match holder & striker; the domed lid surmounted by a ball finial above a flared cylindrical pot with a cross-hatched striker collar and a moulded foot with concentric ring turning to the underside, 3¾” (9.5 cm) in height. A baluster turned go-to-bed marked Killarney around the side, raised on a turned pedestal foot and having a domed lid with twin knopped finial, 4 3/8” (11 cm) in height. An intricately turned, finely patinated yew-wood spice jar (A/F); the campana shaped vessel on a blade knopped stem and round spreading foot (large chip to one side), capped by a broad domed lid surmounted by a multi-knopped finial, 5” (13 cm) in height. Two fine coromandel Go-to-beads: One of baluster form having a screw-off domed lid with crenulated gallery centred by a turned marine ivory nozzle with match hole, alongside another hole to the dome, 3½” (9 cm) in height. The other of tapering tower form with a screw-off lid capped by a decorative carved rosette, 3½” (9 cm) in height. And a small waisted cylindrical match container incised with bands of ring turning and having a finialed screw-top lid, 2½” (6.5 cm) in height.*