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18th C. Northeastern Ash Burl Bowl

Large black ash burl bowl with the flaring vertical profile usually found only in early turned burl. Extremely deep with good swirling figure. 16” x 8”, an unusual 2:1 aspect ratio. Unwaxed, unvarnished. Lightly bleached interior, probably from use as a food or bread bowl. Fine incised turnings  on the sides. Great early 19th C. forged nail repair of a rim split and a late 19th C. patch to a crack with two sheets of tiinned iron. Ca. 1760-1780. Steven Powers shows a similar bowl on p. 42 of North American Burl Treen, and Nutting illustrates a bowl of identical form as fig. 3792 in Furniture Treasury.

$1,675