Carved Heather Wood and Boxwood Cane Depicting a Demi-Solde France, c. 1820 Attenuated figure of a man with an agitated expression wearing the plumed helmet of a Chevau-léger or light cavalryman, but whose civilian clothing indicates a military figure on half pay, which was the fate of over 20,000 officers in Napoleon's army after Waterloo; over a short, finely carved column base terminating in a brass tip, overall wd. 6, ht. 34 1/2 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. 177. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing