Two Porcelain-mounted Canes

Description:

Two Porcelain-mounted Canes, Continental, late 19th/early 20th century, each polychrome, possibly Meissen, in the form of an aristocratic lady with a mask, one with ebonized shaft and the other bamboo-style, ht. 37 1/4 to 38 in.
Estimate $700-900

Porcelain has some wear to gilding/rubbing/loss and surface paint. Cane shafts each have some surface grime.


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