A Wonderful 18thC English One Piece Folk Art Walking Cane Carved as a Lion sub-Curios 25 inches x 20

25 inches x 20

otherwise described as the `Leopold II and Amherst Papyrus`

survives from the second half of the eighteenth century

with male and female figural masks as a King and Queen to the tapering stiles

such as the Black Death which killed a third of Europe's population during the second half of the 14th century - but also it firmly established the connection between religion and art

A Wonderful 18thC English One Piece Folk Art Walking Cane Carved as a Lion sub-Curios 25 inches x 20Origin: English Period: Queen Anne George I II Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1700 50 Length: 33. 5 inches The early one piece folk art cane, the large terminal carved as an early primitive depiction of a lions head, with polychrome decoration and painted tongue and teeth, the whole with a superb patination, the maple lacquered oak(?) shaft possibly cut down at one stage terminating in an 18thC brass ferrule. The condition of the cane is good with no