25th Jul, 2018 10:00 GMT/BST

Blackborne Collection - Part 2

 
Lot 375
 

375

A Regency Grand Tour/Topographical Fan, circa 1800 -1810, depicting Roman temple ruins in a...

A Regency Grand Tour/Topographical Fan, circa 1800 -1810, depicting Roman temple ruins in a rural setting. The double skin leaf depicts two peasants walking past the ruins. The scene is bordered in a stylised design, in gold. The verso has simple gold painting of floral sprays. The guards and tiny gorge sticks are of carved ivory, with classical figures, the upper guard shows a lady in Roman robes, the lower guard a man in Centurion armour. Both guards are under laid with either thin mother-of-pearl or a shiny white tinsel. Barrel rivet, guard length 17cm. Together with a period card fan tube

Sold for £600
Estimated at £400 - £600


 

The leaf is rubbed on the folds and more so to each side. The monture is sound but the carving in the middle of the upper guard has a section missing.

 


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

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