Belle Époque Dress Cane

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By Kimball Sterling

May 24, 2025

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  Ca 1880 Sizeable and well-proportioned reversed pear-shaped rolled yellow gold knob totally hand chased in the Rococo taste with two large flower panels on gently textured backgrounds alternating with two smaller matching ones, one of them with a, at the Belle Époque fashionable, Monopetros Rotunda representing the idealized view of nature in an English garden. A plethora of asymmetrical scrolls, shells, foliates, and flowers surround the four panels, encapsulating the lighthearted playfulness and intimacy of this art. They extend on the gently domed top in a circular arrangement, exemplifying the overstated, dynamic Baroque opulence and ornamentation needed to frame a blank cartouche. The chasing is breathtaking, of the finest kind, tasteful, painstakingly arranged, and executed. More and above, the micro detail is emphasized by the most magnificent matted surface to the gold, called in French “Or Amatti”. Struck by a tiny square unidentified hallmark, the knob is graced by a rarely encountered tight-grained and richly hued rosewood shaft known as coral rosewood with a black horn segment, a flush-set bone washer joiner at the top, and a matching and long black horn ferrule at the bottom. This cane with a great cultural signature is a celebration of French refinement and elegance. It has the star power to capture not only the attention of rabologists but to enthrall every art collector and lover. If only the best will do, then you have arrived at your final destination. Obviously treasured for its entire life, it survived flawlessly. H. 2 ½” x 1 ½”, O.L. 36” 1,000-$1,500 La Belle Époque comes from French and means “Beautiful Era” and is the term often given to a period of French and European history, usually dated to between 1871–1880 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914. In the United Kingdom and the United States, it overlaps the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. In the United States, it is known as the Gilded Age. It was only in retrospect that both time periods gained their names.
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