SOLD FOR $18,000
Nantucket Whalebone, Whale Ivory and Wood Swift, circa 1850, from the famed Carpenter collection; multi-turned upper section with red scribe wax lines on a whalebone shaft and a matching turned ivory adjustment slide and knob, on a two-tiered shaped round ebony and mahogany base, supported by 12 turned ivory posts and feet, the central shaft protruding through both wood disks and secured by a hand carved whalebone thumb twist nut. The cage is constructed of 144 whalebone ribs.
Height 22 ¾ in. Diamter of base 7 in.

Provenance: Mary Grace & Charles H. Carpenter Collection
Hyland Granby Antiques to Present Owner

Literature: Carpenter, Jr., Chares H. and Mary Grace Carpenter, “The Decorative Arts and Crafts of Nantucket, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1987, Pl. 1 facing page 115