stirrer; whisk (food processing & storage)

Chocolate mixer or whisk, 'Batidor'. Intricately carved pommel made of bone on the end of the handle which leads to a brass ring at the joint of the wooden handle. The handle is a cylinder of wood which has several bands of incised decoration on the length of it. The head of the whisk consists of three segmented sections, each of which has a ring around it carved from the same piece of wood as the main object. Each ring has intricate carved decoration and is freely rotating on the whisk. The end of the whisk is a large wooden pommel that has patterns incised onto it in red and black with bone circles inlaid on the bottom. There is a cut out section with bone discs sandwiched between the top and the bottom of the pommel.

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