Description

In both Spanish and Filipino, the term ‘baston’ means cane. Most bastons are made of dark, dense, and flexible food such as rattan, kamagong, and bahi wood. It is often an heirloom that many of the old money families in the Philippines passed down to the younger generations. Many bastons in Museo de La Salle’s collection have bone in-lay, indicating the high social status of the individual who owned them.

This item is part of Museo de La Salle’s Santos Joven Panlilio collection which boasts of antique turn-of the-century furniture and decorative furnishings from the family’s ancestral home in Bacolor, Pampanga. Some pieces were collected through the years by art connoisseur, antique collector and interior designer Jose Ma. Ricardo Panlilio, the museum’s founding director.

Donation

JRP