A BOY AND DRUM TAPERSTICK, the child lying on his back wearing turquoise-spotted white shorts, his head resting on a French horn forming the handle, balancing a drum on his raised right leg to form the nozzle, on a white cloth striped in turquoise and gilt, scattered with gilt instruments and a fringed oval base (restoration to right leg and drum), left thumb and index finger lacking, chips to horn), impressed marks, incised number 3/18, circa 1870