A Wonderful 18thC English One Piece Folk Art Walking Cane Carved as a Lion sub-Curios Samuel Thomas Arthur Robinson

Samuel Thomas Arthur Robinson

Provenance: The Property of Mrs Denzil Ffennell

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Auguste Rodin was deeply inspired by tradition yet rebelled against its idealized forms

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A Wonderful 18thC English One Piece Folk Art Walking Cane Carved as a Lion sub-Curios Samuel Thomas Arthur RobinsonOrigin: English Period: Queen Anne George I II Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1700 50 Length: 33. 5 inches The early one piece folk art cane, the large terminal carved as an early primitive depiction of a lions head, with polychrome decoration and painted tongue and teeth, the whole with a superb patination, the maple lacquered oak(?) shaft possibly cut down at one stage terminating in an 18thC brass ferrule. The condition of the cane is good with no