A superb carved hardwood panel by John Kendrick Blogg, signed and dated 1927, the rectangular panel finely carved and undercut in high relief with a leafy eucalyptus twig laden with nuts, the panel ground sunken within its edges and textured with horizontal light gouges, incised cursive signature 'John K Blogg 1927' lower right, 50 cm high, 29.5 cm wide, 7 cm deep. Provenance: by descent to Joyce ('Joy') Walshe, grand-daugher of J.K. Blogg, the Estate of Joyce Walshe. Literature: illustrated in Marjorie Morgan, Legacy in Sculptured Wood: an Appreciation of the Work of John Kendrick Blogg, 1851 - 1936 (1993), p. 65, fig. 27