"Stay Busk"
Rebus corset whale :Fully engraved whale bone body busk.
1st cartridge with a flame and the motto “Until the end”.
2nd cartridge a heart and an arrow and the motto “Not one catches me”.
3rd cartridge two intertwined hearts and the motto “Amour a unite”.
Foliage decoration between the cartridges.
Double decorative frieze on the reverse.
A similar model is kept at the Louvre Museum, Department of Objects of Art from the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Modern Times under number OA 179.
France,
Whale bone,
Seventeenth century.
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