25th Jul, 2018 10:00 GMT/BST

Blackborne Collection - Part 2

 
  Lot 335
 

335

An Early 19th Century Bone Brisé Fan, the twenty inner sticks and two guards lightly pierced,...

An Early 19th Century Bone Brisé Fan, the twenty inner sticks and two guards lightly pierced, the tips of all sticks pointed. The recto is painted with a border of pink roses and green leaves marginally below the ribbon. The verso is painted in a similar fashion with the addition of yellow and orange flowers. Above and below the flowers, the piercing is worked in several different designs in bands across the whole fan. Guard length 16cm; and A Bone Fan, circa 1900 to 1910's, probably for a young girl, the sticks shaped with medallions, the upper guards with flowers and decorative scrolling. The gorge sticks are designed in band, punctuated at regular intervals with oval medallions containing flowers with many petals and a central orange stone, joined by meandering flowers and leaves. The fabric leaf in peppermint green is painted with three vignettes. To the left, a small bridge crosses water. Centrally, a view of a stone balustrade, a vantage point on a county estate with distant views including an ancient temple. To the right, a curved stone bridge, these vignettes being divided by musical instruments and decorated with orange and yellow flowers and yellow ribbons and bows. The verso is plain and the sticks are mounted à l'anglaise. Guard length 24cm (2)
Not Sold

 

Fan 1 - damage to at least one of the pointed tips. Fan 2 - nothing noted.

 


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

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