163. Cloisonné Enamel Dress Cane -Ca. 1900 -Shippo cloisonné enamel small cylindrical knob with round and flattop totally enameled in well-matched pas

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Antique Canes and Walking Sticks

By Kimball Sterling

Dec 8, 2018

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A collection of 200 canes and walking sticks. Many different categories are presented in this single owner European collection Kimball Sterling kimballsterling@earthlink.net

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  163. Cloisonné Enamel Dress Cane -Ca. 1900 -Shippo cloisonné enamel small cylindrical knob with round and flattop totally enameled in well-matched pastel colors with various blooms. The knob is executed in the ancient and traditional Far-Eastern love for the detail perfection, and comes on a snake wood shaft, license for ultimate luxury, and a horn ferrule. This cane exudes class and elegance, and, despite a great fragility, it survived intact and in mint condition. -H. ¾” x ¾”, O.L. 35 ¾” -$300-$400 -Cloisonné is a way of enameling an object, (typically made of copper) whereby fine wires are used to delineate the decorative areas (cloisons in French, hence cloisonné) into which enamel paste is applied before the object is fired and polished. -The Japanese characters used for the word shippo (the Japanese term for enamelware) mean “Seven Treasures” which is a reference to the seven treasures mentioned in Buddhist texts. Although these treasures may vary, they generally included at least some of the following: gold, silver, emerald, coral, agate, lapis lazuli, giant clamshell, glass and pearl. The Japanese applied this expression to the rich colors found on Chinese enamel wares and later to those they made themselves. -Piratinera guianensis or snake wood belongs to the family of Moraceae and originates in tropical South America. It is a truly exotic species and probably one of the most difficult woods to find. Typically, it is a very small tree, and only shows the wonderful reddish brown heartwood with speckles of black appearing as hieroglyphics or snakeskin markings in a small quantity of the wood, and then rarely evenly spread across the entire face of the board. Its markings which resemble those of a snakeskin, give this small, relatively rare timber its name. Snake wood is dense, extremely heavy and hard, brittle and splits easily. It becomes very smooth when finished and has natural polish.
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