A GILT BRONZE INSECT CANE

CIRCA 1900-1910, POSSIBLY BY ANDRE BUCHER

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A GILT BRONZE INSECT CANE
CIRCA 1900-1910, POSSIBLY BY ANDRE BUCHER
In the form of a snail perched on a snakewood shaft, signed AB and numbered B.940
36½ in. (92.7 cm.) high, 2¼ in. (5.3 cm.) handle

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Lot Essay

Andre Bucher was a French designer and jeweler who exhibited in the Paris salons in the first decade of the twentieth century. Related cane handles from 1908 are illustrated in A. Duncan, The Paris Salons 1895-1914 Jewellery I, Suffolk, 1994, p.132.

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