Carved and Painted Cane Depicting the Corruption of Eve Italy, c. 1780 The handle carved to depict Eve in the bower of a tree, holding an apple and entwined with serpent, another snake coiled with oak and acorn vines around knobby tapered shaft, iron tip, refinished, overall wd. 6, 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. 196. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing