Richly Carved Boxwood Salt And Pepper Table Server By J. Feynie, Dordogne 15/2/21. No. 266.

In his small village in Dordogne, more precisely on 15/2/21, J. Feynie, in St. Géraud de Corfis sculpted under the Artist's number: 266 (history written under the piece), a beautiful and richly sculpted salt and pepper servant in a boxwood with tight, blond fiber, this very pleasant work of folk art, neat and ornamental. A marvel of inspiration for this Artist who in his head took up all the codes of the beautiful sculpted objects of the beginning of the XIXth under the reign of Charles X, a hundred years later this rare and preserved object of the Art of the table is a marvel of perfection as much by the sculpture, the drawing, the beauty of finish of this piece which make it a unique object ... The piece is composed of a central socket bringing together the two buckets with removable lids and which can be suspended from the two racks coming out of the body of the central upright, the top of which is decorated with an ornate rosette socket surmounting a heart on two volutes; the sides decorated with lozenges with rich decoration and the feet in imitation of twisted horns curved in their center ... Everything gives this piece of curiosity the exceptional side of the design; the sculpture and the detail of the finish.