23rd May, 2018 10:00 GMT/BST

Blackborne Collection - Part 1

 
  Lot 78
 

78

A Circa 1700 or Earlier Very Slender Carved and Pierced Ivory Fan, the guards being lightly...

A Circa 1700 or Earlier Very Slender Carved and Pierced Ivory Fan, the guards being lightly carved with diamond shapes, the gorge having four bands of different shapes. The double paper leaf, coloured in pastels and highlighted in places in gold, has delicate drawings of people, animals, and household objects, to include a man crouching with baskets, several stepladders, a tree, two different birds, a dog and other mean and women. The verso, a very simple pastel drawing of a chariot, wheels to the rear but drawn by an animal with antlers, driven by one figure, pushed from behind by two others, and carrying three passengers. Guard length 25.5cm

Sold for £1,000
Estimated at £400 - £700


 

The ivory is dirty, the verso is slightly foxed with a very small sliver of paper missing.

 


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

Blackborne Collection - Part 1

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