25th Jul, 2018 10:00 GMT/BST

Blackborne Collection - Part 2

 
Lot 270
 

270

Portraits and Peacocks: An Early 18th Century Ivory Fan, with a slender monture quite...

Portraits and Peacocks: An Early 18th Century Ivory Fan, with a slender monture quite classically carved and pierced, the gorge with roundels and ovals with detail within and without. The vellum leaf, mounted à l'anglaise, is unusual. Surrounding a central cartouche of a mythological figure with winged heels (Fortune? Mercury? Perseus?) crossing water on a silver ball, is first ( most unusually) a trompe l'oeil of bobbin lace, then peacock feathers in strong, bold colours which complement the colours used to the sides to depict classical urns, held aloft by Ibis (?). Along the top border are various small portraits of men and women, in oval frames, and some further panels containing classical scenes and symbols. The verso is equally interesting with a central urn of flowers, bordered with leaves, an orange circular panel to either side containing birds, perhaps griffins, and scattered around the reserves, several colourful insects or butterflies. Guard length 34.5cm

Sold for £350
Estimated at £180 - £250


 

Slight restoration to the leaf seen from the verso, and where the ribs meet the gorge sticks brown stains are visible, perhaps glue residue.

 


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

Blackborne Collection - Part 2

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