A JEWELLED GOLD AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL CANE HANDLE

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Property from the Vertical Art Collection, the proceeds to benefit the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation and the University of California San Francisco Thoracic Oncology Lung Cancer Program (Lots 239-250). This cane handle is one of twelve lots offered from the Vertical Art Collection, formed by an American private collector who chooses to remain anonymous. On November 30th a larger group of works from the same collection will be offered for sale at Christie's New York. These sales reveal but a glimpse of a collection that only became known more broadly in 2008 with the publication of Vertical Art: The Enduring Beauty of Antique Canes and Walking Sticks. The startling tableaux by photographer Umberto Barone depicts canes of semi-precious stones inset with diamonds within a dazzling panorama of canes of diverse periods, styles and materials.

A JEWELLED GOLD AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL CANE HANDLE

POSSIBLY BY FABERGÉ, RUSSIA, CIRCA 1900

Details

A JEWELLED GOLD AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL CANE HANDLE
POSSIBLY BY FABERGÉ, RUSSIA, CIRCA 1900
The tapering cylindrical handle enamelled in translucent green over a wavy guilloché ground, the upper section of each side mounted with diamond-set interlacing swags, suspending a cap of the Monomakh, between diamond-set borders, on a wood shaft, apparently unmarked
1¾ in. (4.4 cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Etude Tajan, Paris, 4-5 December 2000, lot 301.

Literature

Vertical Art: The Enduring Beauty of Antique Canes and Walking Sticks, Milan, 2008, illustrated p. 18-19, listed p. [367], no. 6.

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

The use of the cap of the Monomakh suggests that the present lot may have been produced for the Romanov Tercentenary in 1913.

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