9th Mar, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

The Fan Collection

 
  Lot 2127
 

2127

A Late 19th Century Wooden Brisé Fan, painted with a view of ''The Metropole Hotel, Brighton''...

A Late 19th Century Wooden Brisé Fan, painted with a view of "The Metropole Hotel, Brighton" in a vignette bordered with flowers, fan consisting of fourteen inner sticks and two guards, Together with A 20th Century Paper Fan, advertising the "London and North Eastern Railway, a simple leaf mounted on wooden sticks of the type made in China; Two Similar Fans, advertising "The Great Eastern Hotel" and "The Trocadero restaurant"; A 19th Century Olive Wood Fan, with concealed cockade leaf of the type produced in Sorrento, marked "Ricordo" with a figure in local costume painted on the recto; A Paper Fan, mounted on wooden sticks, these being lightly painted in colour, the leaf showing a group of local musicians and dancers performing before a wealthy couple who observe from the stone balcony of their country property. The verso shows a piper playing for a strolling couple; and A Third Paper Fan, mounted on wooden sticks, the recto showing several finely dressed older children strolling in a park by a stone fountain, perhaps in the early days of courtship, not an adult in sight! The verso shows a group of younger children, playing with a skipping rope. Guard lengths: brisé 7.25 inches or 18.5cm; cockade 9.75 inches, 25cm (7)

Sold for £40
Estimated at £50 - £70


 

The first stick in from the left on the brisé is split but holding, the ribbon is sound, but unattached at the left, the wood is quite grubby.

 


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Auction: The Fan Collection, 9th Mar, 2019

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