23rd May, 2018 10:00 GMT/BST

Blackborne Collection - Part 1

 
Lot 35
 

35

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia: A Fine Mid-18th Century Ivory Fan, the gorge plain, the guards...

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia: A Fine Mid-18th Century Ivory Fan, the gorge plain, the guards piqué and inlaid with mother-of-pearl, a carved portrait at the tips. The double paper leaf is elaborately embellished along the top and in further vertical panels, with shiny embossed gold foil. A central scene depicts The Sacrifice of Iphigènia, the daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra and thus a princess of Argos Agamemnon had offended the goddess Artemis, by killing a deer in her sacred grove, who then retaliates by commanding him to kill Iphigenia as a sacrifice, so his ships can sail to Troy. To the right, a horrified onlooker covers his eyes. Two further scenes depict, to the right, a woman and child on a frozen river, and to the left, two older boys playing. The verso has a very natural painted scene, looming mountains with a river in the foreground, a couple to the right, a family of three to the centre, the man smoking a long white pipe, a horse and cart arriving from the left, either delivering or about to take the waiting figures on their way. Guard length 28cm

Sold for £500
Estimated at £600 - £800


 

Some losses to the foil, in the main the small shapes on the vertical panels. Folds somewhat rubbed.

 


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

Blackborne Collection - Part 1

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