25th Jul, 2018 10:00 GMT/BST

Blackborne Collection - Part 2

 
  Lot 411
 

411

A Mid-19th Century Chinese Mandarin Fan, Qing Dynasty, with broad shouldered wooden sticks,...

A Mid-19th Century Chinese Mandarin Fan, Qing Dynasty, with broad shouldered wooden sticks, lacquered in different colours, the guards in red, all painted with flowers and figures, some in groups, others, in roundels at the mid-point of the gorge, seated in curtained alcoves. The double paper leaf depicts various groupings of figures with applied painted ivory faces and silk robes, undertaking various activities, a visitor arriving on horseback, one figure within a curtained booth. The verso depicts similar scenes with many figures holding fixed and folding fans, and one other with a birdcage. Simple shaped loop, guard length 28cm

Sold for £650
Estimated at £700 - £1,000


 

Monture slightly rubbed on the gorge, one of the black lacquered sticks has a straight, not shaped side near the shoulder. Rubbing to the leaf folds, and some repairs to the bottom edge of the leaf. The outer edge of the upper guard has chipped lacquer on the shoulder. The lower guard has broken at the rivet but this 2cm section is available, for repair.

 


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

Blackborne Collection - Part 2

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