Bamboo monkeys

Bamboo cane, incised and carved at the top with a guenon holding her cub in her arms; the shaft is decorated with monkeys in a landscape.

Japanese work (made for export), circa 1900. Bibliography: catalogue of the exhibition "La canne et ses mystères", Musée de Carouge, Geneva, 18 March - 31 May 1998, p. 101, cat. no. 49. (old restoration on the top of the cane)