Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - Day 2 - 21st April 2021
Lot 605
λ A RARE AUTOMATON IVORY HANDLED WALKING CANE
Estimate £1,000 - £1,500 | Hammer £1400
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Description
λ A RARE AUTOMATON IVORY HANDLED WALKING CANE
LATE 19TH / EARLY 20TH CENTURY
carved in the form of a donkey's head, with a push-button mechanism which articulates the ears and mouth, with glass eyes, above a silver collar with a faint hallmark for London and marked 'C.C' for Charles Cooke, Brigg's Chief Stick Mounter, above a snakewood shaft and brass ferrule
89.6cm long
Catalogue Note
See Katherine Prior, 'In Good Hands, 250 Years of Craftsmanship at Swaine Adeney Brigg', pp.99-100 for a very similar donkey automaton cane attributed to the Czilinsky family of ivory and wood carvers.