23rd May, 2018 10:00 GMT/BST

Blackborne Collection - Part 1

 
  Lot 79
 

79

An Elegant Early 19th Century Ivory Fan, the gorge sticks plain, the guards being inlaid with...

An Elegant Early 19th Century Ivory Fan, the gorge sticks plain, the guards being inlaid with abalone in variously shaped panels, with some slight piercing, and painted brown at the head to resemble thumb guards. The double paper leaf is painted en camaieu in powder blue with a stylised tree, four birds, a butterfly and oversized flowers. The verso has originally been painted in a similar fashion with a blue flower, but now has the addition of panels of oriental figures on alternate folds, in gold, and seemingly in strips applied to the leaf. Guard length 28.5cm
Not Sold

 

The addition of the figures to the verso, the leaf is quite dusty and some folds are rubbed, in particular one central to the flowers.

 


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

Blackborne Collection - Part 1

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