Jeweled Vermeil Dress Cane

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By Kimball Sterling

May 24, 2025

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  Ca. 1850 Silver gilt knob fashioned in a stretched and tapering classical shape and topped by a substantial and round turquoise colored and crystallized aventurine cabochon. The body is hand chased and engraved in the Louis XVI style, with a larger panel of hanging flower garlands above another matching smaller one with roses. The accurate detail is breathtaking and highlighted by two bordures, a band of trailing laurel leaves on the top and a wider one with repeating blooms and leaves above an integral and plain ring collar on the bottom. French brilliance is on display on this highly accomplished treasure of distinction, which distills pretty much all the undisturbed wealth of the Second French Empire, the Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III. The knob shows the intense yellow color of pure gold, a sign that the gilding was done with mercury, and comes on a highly esteemed and rarely encountered flamed “Citonier” lemon tree wood shaft and a horn ferrule. It is threaded and detaches easily from the shaft for safe storage. Nothing fails to please in this tasteful cane, which exhibits several features unique to the legendary creations of Cazal, one of the most respected cane and parasol makers of his day and a leading accessory provider to the Parisian haute volée. It is a celebration of French skills and aesthetics and has survived flawlessly. H. 2 ¾”, O.L. 39” $700-$900 Well known for his elegant accessories and one-of-a-kind umbrellas and canes, M. Cazal was indeed a famous French manufacturer who exhibited at the Great Exhibition and created parasols for Empress Eugenie. He patented springs for parasols in France in 1839, which are found in most Cazal parasols. Cazal also wrote a book titled Umbrellas, Parasols, and Walking Sticks in 1844. The Louis XVI style of decoration marked the triumph of neo-classicism, which had been underway in Europe since 1770. It reflected the murals and designs found in the early archeological excavations in Herculaneum and Pompeii and the travels of groups of artists to Greece and Asia Minor. The "taste Pompeiian" was followed by the "taste Entruscan". Motifs in interior decoration included arabesques and grotesques on the Pompeiian model. Bas-reliefs in the Greek and Roman styles were popular, often in the form of rectangular friezes in bronze on furniture or stucco, marble, molded stucco, baked earth, or simply painted in trompe-l'œil over doors. Other popular motifs included garlands of oak leaves or olive leaves, interlaced flowers, ribbons or vines, crowns of roses, flaming torches, horns of plenty, and particularly vases from which emerged flowers or vines. East Indian or Ceylon Satinwood (Chloroxylon Swietenia) comes from the island of Sri Lanka and has been a very appreciated wood throughout the last centuries. The tree reaches no spectacular size, with a length of 10 m for the stem and a diameter of 50 cm, which seems to be the maximum. The color of the heartwood is a delightful light to golden yellow; it is not distinctly demarcated from the sapwood. The texture is fine and even highly lustrous, the grain is narrowly interlocked and often shows an attractive mottled figure. This appears to have the shiny look of an expensive satin fabric and has given the wood its name. Although the name Citronnier or Lemon Tree Wood sounds like the wood is related to citrus trees, it has nothing to do with this species and refers only to the timber's color and lemony smell.
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