Walking stick button, used as a cachet, The round, cast button rests on a slightly constricted band with a profiled upper edge, with which it was attached to the rot. Above a curved bottom edge, it widens to the curved top. The bottom edge is decorated with C-volutes, rocailles and a flower garland. Above that the wall is adorned with a representation of the Judgment of Solomon. In an interior with a tiled floor and a colonnade that offers a view of a landscape, Solomon sits on a throne seat with an asymmetrical C-volute-backed back, placed on a raised platform under a canopy with twisted columns. The dead baby is in front of him. A helmeted warrior wants to pierce the living baby but is thereby stopped by the mother, while the mother of the dead child watches in horror. Spectators are two women, a boy and a warrior, holding a shield with an asymmetric cartouche on top. The scene is closed from above by a border of C-volutes with rocailles, leaf garlands, capitals and engraved scaly fields. Abraham's sacrifice is shown on the top. Abraham is about to pierce his son Isaac, kneeling on an altar, with a dagger, when an angel appears in the clouds to stop him. At the bottom of the button is a - 19th-century - steel bottom plate, embossed with the letter K., Zacharie Neau (attributed to), Amsterdam, 1751, gold (metal), steel (alloy), h 7.8 cm × d 4.2 cm × w 127.0 gr
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