Name: Baton with bone tips;
Date:
1896;
Country: Germany or Austria?;
Town: unknown;
Materials: French-polished wood (ebony?), bone;
Measurements: length 35,4 cm, diameter 2,1 cm;
Ownership:
Jan Stanisław Witkiewicz’s collection;
Inventory number: JSW 117;
Description:
<< Back
Baton with elaborately carved bone tips; cylindrical body made of French-polished wood; shorter bone tip carved with concentric leaf motives and pearl blasting; longer, lyre-shaped tip carved with analogical motives, along with a shield with an inscription in darkened letters, violins, wind instruments, and a score scroll on a laurel wreath background; below, on the wooden body, a plow painted in golden stroke. The baton is similar to baton JSW 118 from the same collection. The inscription suggests a 25th anniversary of an unknown person.
; Inscriptions:on the shield, in black letters: 6. Juni / 1871 / 6. Juni / 1896.
; Catalog card:Joanna Gul, consultation: Magdalena Szmida-Półbratek (City Museum of Wrocław)
;<< Back