25th Jul, 2018 10:00 GMT/BST

Blackborne Collection - Part 2

 
  Lot 463
 

463

A Mid to Late 19th Century Ivory Fan, the monture very plain, the double silk leaf painted with...

A Mid to Late 19th Century Ivory Fan, the monture very plain, the double silk leaf painted with a young boy playing a guitar to the delight of three young and fashionable ladies seated in the shade of an arbour. The costumes appear a century earlier than the fan, the lady in lilac appearing to wear a sack back robe, shading herself with a matching parasol, one companion shading herself with her fan. Unsigned. The cream verso is plain. Simple gold metal loop with attractive shaping to the head when the fan is open. Guard length 27cm. Together with a green card fan box, unlabelled; and A Late 18th/19th Century Ivory Fan, the slender sticks carved, pierced, gilded and silvered, the upper section of the guards wider. The gorge is quite finely carved with figures and more classical designs. The double paper leaf of a later period, is lithographed with a charming scene of young girls and their mothers presenting bouquets of flowers to an older lady seated in the grounds of a large country house, just visible in the distance. The dresses are brightly coloured and of the tiered style popular in the middle of the century. The reserves are filled with flowers and are strongly gilded. The verso shows two ladies wearing much earlier, flowing robes, greeting a young male visitor who appears to proffer a gift. Guard length 27cm (2)

Sold for £80
Estimated at £90 - £120


 

Fan 1 - Rubbing to the folds, splitting to leaf next to the right guard, and just in from the lower guard. Colours and detail good. Box in good order. Fan 2 - The upper guard is broken but present. Losses to the gilding and silvering.

 


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

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