Cane - Wood

Shepherd’s cane knob

Greece

The upper part represents a fish head holding a diamond-shaped object between its jaws. The tail of the fish (or serpent?) ends with another animal head from which a woman emerges, seated on a back-supported chair, with long hair and wearing an embroidered dress.
Very fine engravings all over the object

A hole is drilled through the largest head to fix the cane shaft (absent).

Late 19th or early 20th century

Wood with a beautiful pale brown patina, polished

Provenance: Former collection of Jean-Michel Huguenin