Warthog Tooth and Boxwood Figural Cane

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The 2022 Cane Masterpiece Auction

By Kimball Sterling

Dec 3, 2022

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• Lot Description
  -Ca. 1900 -Substantial warthog tooth handle embellished at the front with a boxwood boar head against oak leaves. -The boar is naturalistically carved with the characterizing furry coat and drooped and pointed flat ending nose framed by strong and curved teeth under a pair of deeply set tiny eyes and upright ears with stiff, bristly hair. -Marked by the striking contrast of the impressive natural curve of the tooth against the elaborate fine carving of the head, the handle comes with a longer metal collar and faded gilding on a smooth shaved golden bamboo shaft and a metal ferrule. -A statement making trophy and a hunting allegory, this light weighted and sturdy cane aged well and with its entire integrity. It takes advantage of a recent expert refreshment when the handle anchoring on the shaft was re-adjusted and inevitable character lines to the bamboo shaft secured. -H. 6 ½” x 4 ¾”, O.L. 33 ¼” -$500-$700 -Warthog, (Phacochoerus aethiopicus), member of the pig family Suidae, found in open and lightly forested areas of Africa. The warthog is a sparsely haired, large-headed, blackish or brown animal standing about 30” at the shoulder. It has a coarse mane extending from the neck to the middle of the back, and it has a long, thin, tufted tail that it carries high while it is running. The male has two pairs of bumps, or warts, on the face. -Both sexes bear upwards growing tusks, with the upper jaw teeth being by far the more spectacular in appearance, curving upward and inward in a semicircle, attaining a length of more than 20” in some males. The lower pair, however, are the more dangerous, being straight, sharply pointed, and keep a keen edge by the upper pair rubbing against the lower pair. The tusks, more often the upper set, are worked much in the way of elephant tusks with all designs scaled down. -The male is called a boar, the female a sow and the young piglets.
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