A Charming c.1820 Pen & Ink Naively Decorated Scottish Burr Root Wood Snuff Mull; ‘Tam o’Shanter’ antiques Piers von Westenholz

Piers von Westenholz

The Chest:

the puppeteer and the fire eater

The Tea Tray Company made petalled horns its speciality

A Charming c.1820 Pen & Ink Naively Decorated Scottish Burr Root Wood Snuff Mull; ‘Tam o’Shanter’ antiques Piers von WestenholzOrigin: Scottish Period: Early Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1810 20 Height: 1. 75 inches Depth: 3. 5 inches Width: 5 inches The Georgian Scottish table snuff box of wonderful colour, carved in burr root wood from a huge old tree, having a hinged cover naively decorated in pen and inkwork depicting a scene from Tam oShanter showing a haunted church lit up, with witches and warlocks dancing and the devil playing the bagpipes amongst