25th Jul, 2018 10:00 GMT/BST

Blackborne Collection - Part 2

 
  Lot 256
 

256

The Wedding Procession: A Colourful Mid 18th Century Fan, with highly gilded mother-of-pearl...

The Wedding Procession: A Colourful Mid 18th Century Fan, with highly gilded mother-of-pearl monture, the guards carved with a figure and foliage, the gorge elaborately decorated with three vignettes, the centre showing a kneeling male presumably proposing to his lady, a winged cherub above holding a flower garland. To the sides and elsewhere cherubs play and fly. The vignettes are backed with thin white mother-of-pearl. The double paper leaf shows a country procession, the bride and groom in their finery walking at the front, a winged bare breasted lady, Aphrodite (?) hovering above, and carrying a flower garland. The verso shows a gentle countryside scene of three couples, a picnic ready for their enjoyment. Guard length 27cm

Sold for £800
Estimated at £300 - £600


 

One gorge stick loose to the right, leaf slightly rubbed with some small tears. Good colour.

 


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Auction: Blackborne Collection - Part 2, 25th Jul, 2018

Blackborne Collection - Part 2

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