7. Ivory Venus Cane-Ca. 1880-Reclining nude carved of one piece of blameless and fine grained ivory, well-dressed malacca shaft with a metal collar and ferrule. The graceful depiction is emphasized by the stunning silky surface of the handle which surely adds to its feminine seductiveness. Created by a great master’s hand, the Venus was obviously granted the attention that an artist gives to a selected creation and should be viewed as a celebration of feminine beauty. In any case, this cane embodies the essence of walking sticks aesthetics and, ripe with poetry and symbolism, it possibly redefines every man’s dreams and surely realizes the cane collector’s ones. Where the shaft shows some age and wear to its ferrule, the handle survived in phenomenally good condition and is possibly today better than its maker intended it, since it was emphasized by an entire century of age and careful handling.-H. 5 ¼” x 1 ¾”, O.L. 36 ½"