An adorable Donkey Bronze Cane, France circa 1900

The massive bronze handle is 7 cm high x 11 cm to the side x 4 cm at widest. It is shaped as a long-eared donkey harnessed and adorned with jingle bells and pom-poms. There is a plain horn collar, it is top of a sound malacca shaft with a beautiful honey colour in a warm and uniform patina, it presents two metal eyelets to pass a cord through. The OL is 93 cm it ends with a copper ferrule. Without dents or cracks on the bronze or malacca, the condition is excellent.

The subject of donkeys as a pet, became very popular at the end of the Victorian era when Queen Victoria acquired the famous donkey Jacquot in one of her trips to the French Riviera and took it back with her to the Buckingham Palace. In pictures of that time, we can see him pulling her carriage, her love for animals was highly known. For more information, you see the following links:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/21/queen-victoria-french-spa-town-life-aix-les-bains

https://curiousrambler.com/2013/06/11/queen-victoria-in-nice/