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THBLapis Lazuli and Cloisonn‚ Enamel Cane
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125 West Market Street
Johnson City, TN 37604
United States
Family-owned and family-run Johnson City Tennessee auction business for 25 years. Selling antiques and collectables for 38 years. Kimball M. Sterling, Inc. was founded and is owned by Kimball and Victoria Sterling, time and again, they have laid solid claim to world-wide attention and renown with an...Read more
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About Auction
LiveJan 3, 2026
Masterpiece Cane auction is all from a Europeon collection. We offer items from this private collection about once a year, Kimball Sterling kimballsterling@earthlink.net
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Early 1900s Plain lapis lazuli ball and its long Shippo cloisonn‚ enamel collar on a Makassar ebony shaft and a horn ferrule. The ball's blue color, with plenty of golden dust and a few whitish tufts, gives it the appearance of a celestial globe with sparkling stars and clouds, making this cane a heaven among walking sticks. The matching collar with flowers adds a touch of the Garden of Eden. Fortunately, it survived intact and is as attractive as on its first day. H. 3” x 1”, OL. 38” Lapis lazuli was always highly valued and reserved for the wealthy. In Mesopotamia, this blue stone symbolized the heavens and was used to decorate temple ceilings. In Egypt, it adorned statues of the gods, while in Europe, it was believed to cure melancholy and fever. Cloisonn‚ is a method of enameling an object, usually made of copper, in which fine wires are used to outline decorative areas, known as cloisons in French, hence the name cloisonné, Enamel paste is applied within these areas before the object is fired and polished. The Japanese characters for shippo (the term for enamelware) mean “Seven Treasures,” a reference to the seven treasures mentioned in Buddhist texts. While these treasures can vary, they typically include gold, silver, emeralds, coral, agate, lapis lazuli, giant clamshells, glass, and pearls. The Japanese applied this term to the vibrant colors found on Chinese enamelware and, later, to those used in Japanese enamelware.
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