25th Jul, 2018 10:00 GMT/BST

Blackborne Collection - Part 2

 
Lot 276
 

276

An Early 18th Century Ivory Fan, the guards carved and pierced with a lady holding her arm...

An Early 18th Century Ivory Fan, the guards carved and pierced with a lady holding her arm aloft, flowers below, the gorge sticks carved at the top with a wide horizontal band, lightly pierced, the lower gorge plain. Mother-of-pearl thumb guards. The vellum (?) leaf, carved à l'anglaise, is painted with a central scene of a young couple seated under a tree enjoying a picnic, the man with a glass of wine, a big cat, possibly a leopard, lying beside them (Bacchus and Ariadne?), to the left a huntsman with a spear walking his dog, to the right a lady seated next to water, a bird on a leash on her extended right arm. The leaf is applied with embossed gold foil shapes and panels of various sizes, along the top border, part way down the sides, and close to the centre. The verso, painted in pastel shades, shows a hilltop village, several figures dancing and taking a stroll outside the walls. Guard length 27.5cm

Sold for £320
Estimated at £400 - £700


 

There has been a break to the upper guard, restored. Minor loss to the gold foils. Some leaf folds are rubbed and there are numerous short nicks to the upper folds.

 


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

Blackborne Collection - Part 2

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