An impressive Coromandel-wood sculpture, three birds and a nid. Raised on a heavy tree-trunk base. Ca.1920-1930. Coromandel-wood is a very valuable wood, found in India and Sri Lanka. It is variegated with stripes of deep black and hazel-brown and extremely dense, which makes it heavy and hard and slow growing. It has now been logged to extinction over the last two to three hundred years so there is no new wood available. Coromandel furniture and sculptures are so expensive and prized, that recycling it, is an unlikely proposition.
