25th Jul, 2018 10:00 GMT/BST

Blackborne Collection - Part 2

 
  Lot 347
 
Lot 347 - An Early 19th Century Horn Fan, with a double silk leaf, the guards incised with a curly or perhaps
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An Early 19th Century Horn Fan, with a double silk leaf, the guards incised with a curly or perhaps

An Early 19th Century Horn Fan, with a double silk leaf, the guards incised with a curly or perhaps feather design, flanking a central elongated V, and piqué with steel. The gorge is embellished in a similar fashion, giving a light and airy feel. The leaf, of buttermilk silk, is embroidered, to the top and sides, with embossed gold foil, shaped as feathers, and tipped with silver sequins. The upper and lower edges of the leaf are applied with a slim gold looped braid. In the centre of the leaf, next to a painted palm tree with hanging fronds of embroidered sequins, is a lady in a lilac robe embroidered with gold sequins, a pink ribbon In her hair, and holding a fixed fan, the fan most unusually applied with iridescent red and green feathers. The lady is offering pink roses to a young girl, wearing a short jacket, a blue straw hat and a pink skirt embroidered with sequins. To the sides, a small stone fountain, more trees with sequins for foliage, a planter containing pink roses, two stone urns painted in blue, and planted with miniature trees. The verso is plain silk. Guard length 26.5cm, with a lilac stone in the rivet

Sold for £250
Estimated at £150 - £300


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Some damage to the silk seen from the left on the verso, which is also affecting the fold next to the front guard when seen from the recto.

 

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

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