Carved Natural Root Walking Stick Depicting Mythical Figures Continental Europe, late 19th century The handle in the form of an exotic bird's head and snakes entwined, the burls along shaft relief-carved with conforming human and animal figures, including allusions to mythological figures such as Laocoön, priest of Troy, and Romulus and Remus, founders of Rome, refinished, overall wd. 5, ht. 40 1/4 in. Footnotes: Provenance Collection of Eddi Van Auken, California. Literature Illustrated in Vertical Art: The Enduring Beauty of Antique Canes and Walking Sticks (2008), cat. no. 181. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing