Exceptional walking stick or cane in palm and vermeil. - Lot 41

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Exceptional walking stick or cane in palm and vermeil. - Lot 41
Exceptional walking stick or cane in palm and vermeil. The rod is girded in point and in the center of molded rings with engraved decoration of foliage. The head, melted and chiseled, also in vermeil, presents a decoration of lambrequins, draperies in falls connected by masks of grotesques alternating with roses. The whole supports a baluster decorated with acanthus and piastres joining in an eagle head, framing cartouches engraved with the arms of Emmanuel-Philibert of Savoy (Chambéry, July 8 July 8, 1528 - Turin, August 30, 1580), encircled by the collar of the order of the Annonciade and the princely crown of the house of Savoy. Work of the 16th century, probably made between 1560 and 1572. Height : 137,6 cm. (total) : 137,6 cm ; height. (pommel) : 6 cm ; Diam. : 4,5 cm (probably reassembled with a later shaft. No trace of apparent hallmarks) Duke of Savoy and Prince of Piedmont (from 1553 to 1580), known as the Iron Head or the Prince with a hundred eyes, Emmanuel-Philibert is one of the most eminent monarchs of the 16th century. Destined by his father to the ecclesiastical state, the young prince became, in 1536, the last successor of the dynasty of Savoy, following the invasion of his states by states by François 1er. Sent from then on to the court of Charles V, he learns the profession of arms for which he reveals a rare for which he proved to be of rare value. In 1553, inheriting the title of Duke, he undertook the reconquest of his territories, alternating service with the armies of the Holy German Empire and his role as head of state. In 1557, he managed to capture the Constable of Montmorency and the Marshal of Saint André at the battle of Saint Quentin, allowing him to set up the treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis (1559) and to recover his lands. In 1572, he re-established the order of Saint Maurice and Lazarus, which allows us to to emit the hypothesis that the mounting of our cane is former to this date, revealing then only the order of the Annonciade. We find Prince Emmanuel-Philibert carrying a cane in an official portrait sold at Hampel around 2006 and now kept in private hands. In the 16th century, in the courts of Europe, the wearing of a cane became indispensable to the nobleman's status, the latter is richly adorned, generally on shafts in ivory, tortoise shell, rock crystal, mother of pearl or in a mother-of-pearl or in exotic wood. The canes are an object of power, mark of the great princes. This cane is one of the rare examples that remain today. Simple, elegant, using luxurious materials, this object is comparable to the cane of François 1st or that of Louis XIII whose ebony whose ebony shaft ended simply with an ivory pommel, now lost.
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