Maiden and Flowers, Art Nouveau Walking stick. Germany, ca. 1900

This fascinating Belle Époque cane has a large silver handle representing at both sides two different naked nymphs arising from water waves, a symbolic Iris flower is also delineated, it measures 12 cm lengthwise x 6 cm high x 2,5 cm at its widest, it has German marks: The Crown, the 800 and the maker marks R S M. It is on top of a sound ebonized wood shaft and finishing with a horn tip. The O.L. is 90 cm, and the condition is perfect. It is still a very wearable cane.

The Art Nouveau movement was inspired by Nature and Fertility, and the artists represented exquisitely the sinuous forms of plants and women, this cane contains all of these elements in its design. Luckily it survived intact.

Notable is that cast figural silver handles were the top of the line of their kind, by far costlier than the standard, modelled production, and the most durables. 

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