Carved and Painted Cane Depicting Man with Braided Ponytail England, c. 1770 Carved handle of an upper-class, bewigged Englishman caught mid-sentence, over shaft terminating in a flounced skirt above the attached brass-sheathed wooden tip, later black paint over earlier finishes, overall wd. 3 1/2, ht. 36 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. 154. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing