need help: black forest? statue with cane

Jon MB · 16th October 2018, 01:48 PM

Antique dealers may have a paranoia about anything to do with ivory at this point, antique or not.

Wouldn't write off a German connection entirely. Also wondered if could be a Japanese Meiji period item, made for export.

Richard G · 16th October 2018, 07:05 PM

If it is carved wood and it is carved ivory, then it could be 17th or early 18th cent, and if it is - I'd have thought quite important and valuable.
Regards
Richard

josh stout · 16th October 2018, 08:56 PM

It doesn't have the feel of something 18thc or earlier, and I agree that the felt looks much later. I think it is a 19thc copy of an earlier style. Still, it is very nicely carved, much better than most things you run across. It may have been too nice for the antiques dealer to believe it was just walking in the door.

I suspect the antiques dealer evaluated the fifteen year old girl showing him the piece, more than the piece itself.

16th October 2018, 01:48 PM	#1
Jon MB Member Join Date: Mar 2017 Posts: 143	Antique dealers may have a paranoia about anything to do with ivory at this point, antique or not. Wouldn't write off a German connection entirely. Also wondered if could be a Japanese Meiji period item, made for export.

16th October 2018, 07:05 PM	#2
Richard G Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 412	If it is carved wood and it is carved ivory, then it could be 17th or early 18th cent, and if it is - I'd have thought quite important and valuable. Regards Richard

16th October 2018, 08:56 PM	#3
josh stout Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 407	It doesn't have the feel of something 18thc or earlier, and I agree that the felt looks much later. I think it is a 19thc copy of an earlier style. Still, it is very nicely carved, much better than most things you run across. It may have been too nice for the antiques dealer to believe it was just walking in the door. I suspect the antiques dealer evaluated the fifteen year old girl showing him the piece, more than the piece itself.