23rd May, 2018 10:00 GMT/BST

Blackborne Collection - Part 1

 
  Lot 120
 

120

Cupid at Play: A Late 18th Century Bone Brisé Fan, the guards plain, the inner sticks pierced...

Cupid at Play: A Late 18th Century Bone Brisé Fan, the guards plain, the inner sticks pierced in bands with flowers and lozenges and smaller regular designs. The tips are painted with blue and yellow, this blue complementing the two painted tear shaped cartouches on the body of the fan. Within the painted areas are circular panels of engraved silk, depicting, to the right, a young woman robed in pink, smiling at a small winged cherub that she has just released from a large lidded panier at her feet. To the left, an older lady also in pink, teases a larger winged cherub by seizing his bow. The remaining sticks are painted with small flowers, mainly in blue. The verso is plain. Guard length 25cm
Not Sold

 

One inner stick is broken but present, over the cartouche to the right. Some slight loss to the paint.

 


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Auction: Blackborne Collection - Part 1, 23rd May, 2018

Blackborne Collection - Part 1

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