19TH/20TH CENTURY
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A GROUP OF FIVE WALKING STICKS
19TH/20TH CENTURY
Comprising: an 'erotic' cane with female and dog; an 'erotic' cane with chased silver-plate top enclosing erotic-scene-decorated snuff box; a pewter 'atomizer' cane with male and female acrobats, stamped PATENT; an 'erotic' cane of woman bending over; a 'Phallic' cane in horn, signed ASPREY and with Cooper-Hewitt exhibition label
37½ in. (95 cm.) long, the largest (5)
19TH/20TH CENTURY
Comprising: an 'erotic' cane with female and dog; an 'erotic' cane with chased silver-plate top enclosing erotic-scene-decorated snuff box; a pewter 'atomizer' cane with male and female acrobats, stamped PATENT; an 'erotic' cane of woman bending over; a 'Phallic' cane in horn, signed ASPREY and with Cooper-Hewitt exhibition label
37½ in. (95 cm.) long, the largest (5)
Provenance
Acquired from Litchfield Auction, Connecticut (female with dog).
Acquired from Hôtel Drouot, Guy Laudner, Edith Vanderlinden, 29 October 1991, lot 107 (the acrobats).
Acquired from Braswell Galleries, Norwalk, Connecticut (the woman bent over).
Acquired from Hôtel Drouot, Guy Laudner, Edith Vanderlinden, 29 October 1991, lot 107 (the acrobats).
Acquired from Braswell Galleries, Norwalk, Connecticut (the woman bent over).
Exhibited
New York, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Canes and Walking Sticks, 3 May - 26 July 1983, no exhibition catalogue (the Phallic cane).
Special notice
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