"Carved Half Coconut, Exotic Work Of Convicts Or Revolutionary Prisoners "
Half coconut carved with an enigmatic motif, representing a curious scene grouping 3 characters A woman in court dress with a wide neckline, a young man in a frock coat half lying down, and under a tree, asleep a musician with a clarinet at his side the woman holds in one hand a stick as if to tickle the musician or gouge out an eye, the young man in frock coat watches the scene the circumference of the nut is decorated with a garland of vines with bunches of grapes, at the end of the nut we see a monster's head on the other side a hedgehog's snout