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THBSilver Art Nouveau Figural Walking Stick
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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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- Lot Description
Ca. 1900
Modified crook-shaped silver handle with a short and pointed arc and a voluminous vertical part modeled with a floating ethereal beauty marked by an abundance of lush hair.
The graceful female figure draws inspiration from the Symbolist paintings of the period. It should be viewed as a figurative link between reality and imagination, responding to a world illustrated in dreamy erotism.
Besides the remarkable attention to modeling detail and chasing carried out to the highest and most exact standards, notable is the superlative ease with which the creating artist blended his beauty into a discreet ergonomic shape with a perfect fit for the right hand.
An artwork of genius in its own right, this handle is indeed near-perfect in both shape and function.
The absence of hallmarks suggests the possibility that the handle remained a singular prototype and was never produced in large numbers. It also makes exact origin identification difficult, favoring French over German.
In any case, it comes on its initial ebony shaft and a metal ferrule, and shows the right amount of wear and age marks to enhance its appeal without diminishing it.
H. 3 ¾” x 4 ¼”, O.L. 35 ½”
$600-$700
From the 1890s to the 1910s, an artistic trend emerged that claimed to be a total break with the past. This came at the height of the Belle Époque, a period that encouraged modernity. The trend is known as Art Nouveau. Artists invented a style in which the curve was dominant and symmetry no longer existed, replaced by a prolific movement that drew inspiration from the world of plants and nature.
Everyone's daily lives should be touched by Beauty, through decoration and color. Total art, this sudden trend, powerful yet brief, affects all means of expression in the decorative arts, architecture, including furniture, jewelry, everyday objects, and walking sticks.
Many similar movements follow around the world. In America. There was Tiffany & Co. in Germany, Jugendstil in Austria, Sezessionstil, etc.
In France, Art Nouveau took on an international dimension at the 1900 Paris Universal Exhibition.
The attending countries put up incredible pavilions and competed for creativity.
It was also a place for illustrators who expressed the motif of the Woman, who is both muse and subject, on the small printed picture that is the postcard.
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