Coconut Bottle – France

Coconut bottle – France
Old coconut bottle deeply engraved with foliage and hunting objects, it is finished with a zoomorphic head with two inlaid mother-of-pearl eyes. The mouth is formed or covered with a silver metal plate engraved with the name of its owner “de Juvigny”. A cartridge on the top of the gourd represents the tools of hunting: arrows in a quiver, sword, sickle, etc., crowned with a sacred heart with four flames. Very beautiful and old brown patina. Bears an old copper pellet with the number 167. The coat of arms of the Juvigny family: “Azure with a lion rampant gold langued gules, accompanied by three flames of the same”.
REGION: Work of French sailors, popular art
MATERIAL: Coconut, mother-of-pearl
PERIOD: 19th century
DIMENSION: 10 x 16 x 10 cm

(Base)
inventory number: EU003