25th Jul, 2018 10:00 GMT/BST

Blackborne Collection - Part 2

 
  Lot 450
 

450

A 20th Century Japanese Fan, with simple wooden sticks dyed aubergine, mounted with a double...

A 20th Century Japanese Fan, with simple wooden sticks dyed aubergine, mounted with a double paper leaf in deep pink, decorated with flowers in yellow and orange. Verso plain. Guard length 30.5cm; A 20th Century Japanese Fan, with wooden sticks, mounted with a double silvered paper leaf showing birds in flight with two more birds within foliage, a river beneath, a design of water lilies and leaves painted below and continued on the upper gorge, a pagoda in the background, the verso relatively plain with some silvering; and "Fans of Japan" by Charlotte Maria Birch Saleway, printed London 1894. Hard back, ten full colour plates and thirty-nine black and white illustrations, 148 pages. Purchased on August 2nd 1965 for £25.00 from The Times Bookshop, 42 Wigmore Street, London W1 (3)

Sold for £60
Estimated at £60 - £80


 

Leaf slightly stained.

 


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

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