9th Mar, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

The Fan Collection

 
  Lot 2149
 

2149

Fans Across The World: A Quantity of 19th Century Fans, to include two fixed ''flag'' fans ,...

Fans Across The World: A Quantity of 19th Century Fans, to include two fixed "flag" fans , woven from fibres, one embroidered with a peacock; A folding fan with individual panels mounted on horn, the sticks of several colours, the panels emulating feathers and coloured in teal and soft red, with gold highlights; a fixed fan on horn handle and frame; another fixed fan on light horn with an attractive and detailed pierced leaf highlighted in gold (the last 3 fans probably pierced and painted Buffalo hide and Buffalo horn, from Sumatra); a small woven fibre fixed fan with dyed purple fibre detail, and a fixed fan with wood handle and a pierced leaf, embroidered in green wool, a rose as the central feature (7)

Sold for £50
Estimated at £80 - £120


 

Light wear to the top corner of the flag fan with the peacock; the final fan with rose feature is damaged where the screen joins the handle.

 


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Auction: The Fan Collection, 9th Mar, 2019

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