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An unusual painted coconut
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An unusual painted coconut

PERHAPS EARLY 19TH CENTURY

细节
An unusual painted coconut
Perhaps early 19th century
Decorated with a bespectacled cleric's face
4in. (10.2cm.) long
注意事项
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拍品专文

The style and palette of this subject resembles closely a school or cottage industry producing portraits of clergymen painted onto bovine vertabrae of the same period. The source and reason for the production of these unusual artefacts remains a mystery.