25th Jul, 2018 10:00 GMT/BST

Blackborne Collection - Part 2

 
  Lot 473
 

473

Pastoral Idyll: An Early 18th Century Ivory Fan, with carved guards and a carved, pierced and...

Pastoral Idyll: An Early 18th Century Ivory Fan, with carved guards and a carved, pierced and painted gorge. The front guard has two panels in the upper section in which are painted flowers. The lower guard has a more plainly carved upper section. A central pierced vignette in the gorge is carved with flowers in a basket, a squirrel to either side, the basket brightly gilded. To the left, two painted Japanese figures, a tall bird table with a bird, to the right a further Japanese figure proffering a red rose to an ostrich. The vellum leaf, mounted à l'anglaise, shows a European scene of a lady listening to a musician playing a stringed instrument, and to the right a young shepherd playing a pipe to his sheep. The verso has a simple painting of trees and a sheep. Guard length 29cm

Sold for £220
Estimated at £250 - £500


 

The leaf is quite well rubbed, and foxed within some folds. The ivory is yellowing in places, the verso is quite dusty and lightly marked.

 


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

Blackborne Collection - Part 2

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