25th Jul, 2018 10:00 GMT/BST

Blackborne Collection - Part 2

 
Lot 290
 

290

A Small and Slender Early 18th Century Ivory Fan, the guards painted in several colours with...

A Small and Slender Early 18th Century Ivory Fan, the guards painted in several colours with figures and fruit and perhaps a frog. The gorge is also painted, and pierced, a central scene of a large plant pot with a cactus and a coral plant, several figures around, further figures to each side, a band of tiny painted flowers beneath. The double paper leaf shows an important visitor wearing long trailing robes and carrying a fan, and the preparations for the visit, with a table being set with crockery and various figures arriving with baskets and household objects. The verso shows a distant mountain range, a stylised tree, and a fisherman. Guard length 25.5cm

Sold for £320
Estimated at £400 - £700


 

The verso is slightly browning and has a paper repair to the top left.

 


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

Blackborne Collection - Part 2

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