23rd May, 2018 10:00 GMT/BST

Blackborne Collection - Part 1

 
  Lot 145
 

145

A Late 19th Century Mother-of-Pearl Fan, with carved and pierced broad shouldered sticks and a...

A Late 19th Century Mother-of-Pearl Fan, with carved and pierced broad shouldered sticks and a highly decorated gorge. Both guards are carved with flowers and leaves, the gorge with a large central vignette of a courting couple, their costumes detailed and accentuated by being coloured in two shades of gold, and in silver. A small but intricate pierced lattice surrounds the profiles. The surrounding sticks are worked with the same flowers as the gorge and also brightly coloured gold, and silver. The leaf is a simple band of light apricot crepe laid onto a paler cotton, and embroidered with several shapes of shiny, tiny sequins in silver, blue and cerise. Guard length 27cm

Sold for £100
Estimated at £150 - £250


 

The fabric is clean and undamaged and the sequins all appear present. Both guards have suffered and have some crude restoration.

 


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

Blackborne Collection - Part 1

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