An amusing French-poodle by Antoine, a mascot Cane, France ca. 1900

French Poodles, originally from Germany, were bred as hunting dogs to retrieve game from water, this elegant-looking hound, is also tagged as true aristocrats due to the way they stand and their magnificent coat colours.

Poodles are smart dogs, having some of the highest instinctive intelligence among water retrievers with substantial evidence of high adaptive skills. Poodles are eager for all kinds of activity, and they enjoy keeping busy. 

This high-end French-poodle portraiture is precious carved in elephant ivory and finished with great expression, ivory quality is supreme, is 10 cm high by 4 cm to the side by 3,5 cm wide, with no hairlines or chips or cracks. It has a 5 mm high silver collar on top of a stepped malacca shaft marked ANTOINE Palais Royal ends with a bimetal ferrule. The O.L. is 88 cm without chips or cracks, the condition is perfect.

We deliver this piece with a signed document issued by a certified appraiser, corroborating the ivory is older than 100 years and therefore before 1947.

Antique Walking Cane Collection Antiker Spazierstock Sammlung Antique Canne Collection Antiek Wandelstok Verzameling Antico Bastone Collezione Античный трость коллекции Baston Antiguo Coleccion