Jewel walking stick that commemorates the events of Emperor Hadrian and Antinous by Peruzzi, Florence, Italy circa 1930.
Florence, Italy, circa 1930.
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Jewel walking stick, large curved knob in silver, vermeil with stones: garnets, topaz and emeralds. Ebony wood barrel. It commemorates the events of Emperor Hadrian and Antinous, the favourite. Around the band is the famous incipit of a poem by the emperor poet ‘animula vagula blandula, the first verse of a poem that appears in the Historia Augusta as the work of the dying emperor Hadrian. Peruzzi, Florence, Italy circa 1930.
35,5” – 90 CM H 4,75” – 12,5 CM L 1,25” – 3 CM D
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