Jewel walking stick, handle depicting a Vanitas-Memento Mori. Signed Ernest Henri Debault for the Maison Cardeilhac, Paris, France 1900.

Paris, France, circa 1900.

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A jeweled walking stick made of silver, designed by Henri Ernest Marie Dabault and crafted by Maison Cardeilhac. The knob depicts a Vanitas – Memento Mori. Half of the knob features the finely chiseled face of a woman with long hair, while the other half depicts a decaying skull from which long snakes emerge, along with a torso showing the vertebrae. The band is set with cabochon-cut garnet stones engraved with the Latin phrase Omnia Mors Aequat (Death makes all things equal). The flowers in the woman’s hair are set with rose-cut diamonds, while the eyes of the snakes are sapphires. For contrast, the knob is two-tone: the woman’s face and the snakes are in gilded silver, while the skull and skeleton are in burnished silver. The cane is made of malacca wood with a a longue copper and iron ferrule. Signed E. Dabaul with the Maison Cardeilhac hallmarks. Paris, circa 1900.
Ernest Debault, born in Marsais in 1858 and died in Paris in 1935, was a highly imaginative French painter, jeweler, and goldsmith. He worked in embossed gold, employing strongly Symbolist and Romantic themes. He won a silver medal at the Exposition Universelle in 1900. Some of his jewels were presented at the Salons de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1901 and 1902. He also exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1902. About ten of his jewels are in the collections of the Musée de Nemours and at the Petit Palais in Paris.
The Maison Cardeilhac (1804-1951) was founded by Antoine-Vital Cardeilhac and received several awards over the years: a bronze medal at the 1823 Exposition and silver medals in 1827, 1834, and 1867. A gold medal at the 1878 Universal Exhibition. The house continued to represent its products at the 1889 Universal Exhibition, receiving a silver medal. In 1951, the company merged with Christofle. You can find CARDEILHAC’s works in major international museum collections such as the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Cleveland Museum of Art in the United States, the Suntory Museum of Art in Tokyo, the Kunsgewerbe Museum in Berlin, the Najonalmuseet in Oslo and the Tsarskoïe Selo Palace in Russia.

34” – 87 CM H 2” – 5 CM L 2” – 5 CM D

REF: M6204

A jeweled walking stick made of silver, designed by Henri Ernest Marie Dabault and crafted by Maison Cardeilhac. The knob depicts a Vanitas – Memento Mori. Half of the knob features the finely chiseled face of a woman with long hair, while the other half depicts a decaying skull from which long snakes emerge, along with a torso showing the vertebrae. The band is set with cabochon-cut garnet stones engraved with the Latin phrase Omnia Mors Aequat (Death makes all things equal). The flowers in the woman’s hair are set with rose-cut diamonds, while the eyes of the snakes are sapphires. For contrast, the knob is two-tone: the woman’s face and the snakes are in gilded silver, while the skull and skeleton are in burnished silver. The cane is made of malacca wood with a a longue copper and iron ferrule. Signed E. Dabaul with the Maison Cardeilhac hallmarks. Paris, circa 1900. 
Ernest Debault, born in Marsais in 1858 and died in Paris in 1935, was a highly imaginative French painter, jeweler, and goldsmith. He worked in embossed gold, employing strongly Symbolist and Romantic themes. He won a silver medal at the Exposition Universelle in 1900. Some of his jewels were presented at the Salons de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1901 and 1902. He also exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1902. About ten of his jewels are in the collections of the Musée de Nemours and at the Petit Palais in Paris. 
The Maison Cardeilhac (1804-1951) was founded by Antoine-Vital Cardeilhac and received several awards over the years: a bronze medal at the 1823 Exposition and silver medals in 1827, 1834, and 1867. A gold medal at the 1878 Universal Exhibition. The house continued to represent its products at the 1889 Universal Exhibition, receiving a silver medal. In 1951, the company merged with Christofle. You can find CARDEILHAC’s works in major international museum collections such as the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Cleveland Museum of Art in the United States, the Suntory Museum of Art in Tokyo, the Kunsgewerbe Museum in Berlin, the Najonalmuseet in Oslo and the Tsarskoïe Selo Palace in Russia.
34” – 87 CM H 2” – 5 CM L 2” – 5 CM D
REF: M6204