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18th- and 19th-Century Walking Sticks from the Hermitage Collection
1760s Russia, Tula Length 113 cm The stick is made of ebony with a figured handle in the
form of a siren - a fantastic creature with a turban on its head and a
turned-down tail. Along the sides of the stick are relief depictions of
hunting scenes on a gilded ground: a man with a pipe in his mouth holds
two bears(?) on a chain; a hunter sits beneath an awning and fires a gun
at a fleeing deer, while alongside there are a cupid and a little dog
among scrolls of plant ornament.
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