23rd May, 2018 10:00 GMT/BST

Blackborne Collection - Part 1

 
  Lot 63
 

63

The Question: An 18th Century Ivory Fan, with silvered and gilded ivory sticks, the guards...

The Question: An 18th Century Ivory Fan, with silvered and gilded ivory sticks, the guards carved, the gorge sticks pierced, the depictions mainly of figures and classical urns. The vellum leaf, mounted à l'anglaise, is divided into three colourful paintings, bordered by gold sequins. The central painting is of a seated young lady, a tray of flower heads on her knee, a younger girl at her side, being asked a question by a young man, finely dressed in blue and carrying a stick. To the left, a simple depiction of a child crossing over a rural river bridge, a building with a domed roof to one shore, the final vignette showing a gentleman sitting on a grassy bank near a barn. The cream reserves are painted with swags, and colourful flowers. The verso is plain, red thread outlining the traces of the embroidered sequins on the recto. Guard length 27.5cm
Provenance: Believed to have belonged to HRH The Duke of Connaught

Sold for £220
Estimated at £200 - £400


 

The leaf is quite yellowed, as is some of the ivory, particularly the lower gorge. The fan lacks a rivet and is held together with wire.

 


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Auction: Blackborne Collection - Part 1, 23rd May, 2018

Blackborne Collection - Part 1

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