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cheese taster

human history
  • Other Name

    cheese taster made from shinbone of a sheep, displayed at Melbourne Exhibition (descriptive name)

  • Description

    cheese taster / cheese trier, bone, long hollowed scoop form with carved knuckle bone finial, simple carved geometric pattern to lower half of finial.

  • Place
    [Melbourne]/Victoria/Australia
  • Accession Number
    1932.394
  • Other Id

    18238 (ethnology)

    M2723 (miscellaneous)

  • Department

    Applied Arts and Design

Cheese taster, sheep bone

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