9th Mar, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

The Fan Collection

 
Lot 2022
 

2022

Jacobite, Or No? A Mid-18th Century Bone Brisé Fan, with twenty-five inner sticks and two...

Jacobite, Or No? A Mid-18th Century Bone Brisé Fan, with twenty-five inner sticks and two guards. The fan is applied with foil flowers, birds, and lion masks. Two dancing figures feature one either side of central gilt profile portraits of George II and Queen Caroline, surmounted by a crown. Guard length 8.5 inches or 26.5cm

Purchased at Christie's SK on 1st May 1980 for £189.00. Exhibited in the Royal Fans exhibition Catalogue No 6.

This fan is accompanied by a handwritten letter c 1800 which states "This fan was given by Miss Flora Macdonald Prince Charlie's Mistress to my wife's grandmother (whose second husband was Thomas Walley Esq of Manchester) in gratitude for the kind entertainment they afforded the prince and her while in Manchester. Signed by James Pring. Thomas Walley was one of the two Constables in Manchester in 1745, who may have met Bonnie Prince Charlie when he came to Manchester. He kept a diary which was reprinted in The Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society Vol VII 1889, pp142-159 entitled Manchester and the rebellion of 1745 by J.P.Earwalker. A further article was published in 1961. The vendor has supplied copies. It is however unlikely that the Prince would have given Mrs Walley a fan bearing the heads of King George II and Queen Caroline. George II 1727-1760.

Sold for £350
Estimated at £300 - £600


 

The upper guard has period repair. The fan is attached to stiff card presumably to protect it, as other loss can be seen to some sticks and the lower guard is stitched to the first stick in. The first stick in to the right is damaged and partially stuck to the upper guard. There is a silver of stick remaining centrally and at least another stick appears to have a second stick behind it.

 


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Auction: The Fan Collection, 9th Mar, 2019

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