23rd May, 2018 10:00 GMT/BST

Blackborne Collection - Part 1

 
  Lot 153
 

153

A Large Circa 1890's Pink Mother-of-Pearl Fan, the monture plain. The shaded blue gauze leaf is...

A Large Circa 1890's Pink Mother-of-Pearl Fan, the monture plain. The shaded blue gauze leaf is painted with a simple spray of wild roses, white open cups with yellow centres, supported on bone ribs. A narrow border of bobbin lace is attached to the top edge. The verso is plain. Guard length 35cm; and A Large Circa 1890's Ivorine (?) Fan, the guards silvered and simply carved, and painted with flamingos near water, beneath ribbon tied in a bow and entwined with cascading flowers, these details picked out in pastels. The gorge is mainly plain but shaped near the leaf to produce two different borders, one pierced, one painted with tiny flowers. The single black gauze leaf is painted with flamingos wading in water, one very pink, two tinged with pink, and smaller, perhaps the young. Dragonflies hover over the water. The reserves are painted to the left with reeds and wild flowers in soft blue, white and pink, to the right with water lily leaves. Guard length 35cm (2)

Sold for £60
Estimated at £120 - £150


 

Fan 1 - Some slight foxing to the leaf, generally and on some folds. Fan 2 - The leaf has one major split, only holding together due to the border braid top and bottom. A well-made fan, the leaf supports being a continuation of the guard sticks and not additions of a different material.

 


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

Blackborne Collection - Part 1

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