Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Boule Cloutee - Fishscale Design

Just recently acquired from the South of France. This antique boule cloutee was made with the hard burl of a tree, cut into a sphere shape, and then nails were carefully hammered into it's surface in a spiral pattern (with a copper type nail spelling out the owner's initial"I")

The size: about 100 mm and about 850 grams

a fantastic piece of petanque history

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