Back Scratcher
1850-67 (made)
| Place of origin |
The shaft is cylindrical in form and fashioned from a single piece of dark wood carved entirely with bands of floral scrolls running in a diagonal pattern, terminating in an oval shaped end with a roughened like surface on one side. At the other end is a carved handle fashioned in horn as a hand with the four fingers curved over, the white nails inset with bone, with the back of the hand and base delicately carved with foliate motifs.
Object details
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Wood, horn, bone; carved |
| Brief description | Carved wood and horn back scratcher, Turkey, Ottoman period, 1850-69 |
| Physical description | The shaft is cylindrical in form and fashioned from a single piece of dark wood carved entirely with bands of floral scrolls running in a diagonal pattern, terminating in an oval shaped end with a roughened like surface on one side. At the other end is a carved handle fashioned in horn as a hand with the four fingers curved over, the white nails inset with bone, with the back of the hand and base delicately carved with foliate motifs. |
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| Object history | This object was exhibited at the Paris Universelle exhibition of 1867, and later acquired by the Museum in 1869 for £2 abd 3 shillings. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 1030-1869 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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