Animated stick

of European workmanship but with an oriental taste, according to the fashion of "Japonism" typical of the late nineteenth-century taste: rattan cane carved with figures of geisha and swallows, with a bone handle carved with a figure of a Buddhist sage, silver ferrule and bronze tip ; it hides a 68 cm long quadrangular section blade, marked "Solingen"; in excellent condition with a pleasant period patina L 91.5 cm