Carved and Inlaid Boxwood Walking Stick Depicting a Knight France, 18th century The handle carved to depict a monkey head with open mouth, emerging from the face of a bearded man wearing medieval armor, above a smaller mask of a crowned figure flanked by naturalistic high-relief carvings of a turtle and a fly, all figures embellished with glass and sulfur glass eyes, the shaft retaining natural burls and iron ferrule, refinished, overall wd. 3 3/4, ht. 36 3/4 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. 184. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing