20th Nov, 2020 12:00 GMT/BST

Fans & Fancies - Online auction

 
  Lot 5057
 

5057

A Slender Wood Brisé Fan, the upper guard carved with a decorative tip and incorporating a mirror.

A Slender Wood Brisé Fan, the upper guard carved with a decorative tip and incorporating a mirror. With, unusually, thirty-four inner sticks and two guards, the recto is painted with a tranquil scene of several boats sailing in an estuary. The verso is plain. Fitted with a basic cream cotton tassel. Together with A Painted Black Gauze Fan, mounted on wood sticks, black, the upper guards with gold flowers and fan shapes, the gorge with quite regular gold decoration. The recto is painted with vignettes, one of a lady, holding her fan aloft, on which a tiny bird is perched, the other of her suitor, proffering a red rose, separated by garlands of pastel flowers, gold borders surrounding the images, flowers filling the reserves. The verso is plain; and A Simple Wood Fan, the sticks painted white, with an element of gilding, the cream cotton leaf painted with violets and white blossom within a gold border. (3)

Sold for £40
Estimated at £60 - £80


 

. Slight splitting to the second fan leaf.

 


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Auction: Fans & Fancies - Online auction, 20th Nov, 2020

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