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Dante (Harry August Jansen). Dante’s Carved Wooden Apple Tray/Ashtray. Circa 1950. Grotesque carved hardwood sculpture in the form of a leering demonic figure crouched over a shallow tray between its feet, meant for use as an ashtray. Height 10". With a letter of provenance from Al Sharpe, the former owner, describing the object as a “horrendous ornament” at Rancho Dante on his visit there in the 1940s, and which he would later receive as a gift from magician Gerald Kosky.