America, Mid-19th Century
EXCELLENT WHALE IVORY LOOPED SERPENT PIE CRIMPER
A red-mouthed serpent with inset eyes and a looped body coils around one end of a brace-shaped shaft. Opposite end with an elegantly swooping three-tine fork and a pastry wheel with a pierced teardrop design and notched rim. Shaft with two medial baleen spacers. (SC1290)
Length 7".
Condition: Age lines, starting to crack, mostly concentrated around baleen spacers. Some pearling.
Reference: "Wandering Whalemen and there Art:..." by Alan Granby and published in 2022 by Alan Granby page 293.
An almost identical serpent crimper is illustrared on this page and is the collection of the mariner's Museum.
