Walking stick with three medallions in which symbols of music, painting and sculpture, The cast, round button rests on a smooth band with profiled upper edge, with which it was attached to the rot. It broadens to the curved upper side and is slightly rounded at the top and bottom. The wall is articulated by three twisted columns that rise from a leaf volcano and that extend upwards. A shell motif in the middle of volutes is shown under each column, between these motifs are small engraved fields of grille. The columns bear arches built from C-volutes with a cabochon in the middle, in between, they are each crowned by an asymmetrical vase with flower, always shaped differently, against an engraved foundation of railings with rosettes, closed at the top by a C-volute. One of the vases is decorated with a leaf mask. The three fields between the columns show successively: two little boys playing a flute and a bagpipe in a landscape with a lute and a music sheet under a fruit bowl suspended from the arch, a little boy who paints a flower arrangement arranged on a donkey, while she watches a companion, under a festoon of shells, and a little boy who sculpts a bust while his companion watches by a vase, under a festival of flowers. The representations symbolize music, painting and sculpture respectively. On the top two boys are depicted in the clouds, one of whom takes a measurement on a earth globe with a compass, while the other looks at the starry sky with a viewer. They symbolize geography and astronomy, 'Sculptura', symbolic representations, allegories and emblems, sculpture, 'Scoltura' (Ripa), 'Musica', music, 'Musica' (Ripa), 'Pictura', painting, 'Pittura' (Ripa), 'Geografia', 'Astronomia', 'Cosmografia', 'Cosmografia' (Ripa), cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti', Louis Métayer, Amsterdam, 1750, gold (metal), h 6.7 cm × d 3.9 cm × w 86.0 gr d 2.0 cm
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