11th Oct, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

The Fan Collection

 
Lot 2082
 

2082

Three Large Late 19th Century Fans, including a showy silver sequin fan with a black gauze...

Three Large Late 19th Century Fans, including a showy silver sequin fan with a black gauze leaf, mounted on black wood, this being carved, pierced and silvered, the gorge sticks all continuing up onto the leaf à La Sultane. Guard length 13.5 inches or 34cm. Together with a large fan of black wood, the sticks shaped, and pierced, the leaf of black gauze painted with a blue bird and cornflowers. Guard length 14 inches or 35.5cm. The final fan, the monture of bone, is painted with several dragonflies on cream gauze, the insects hovering over water, their bodies emphasised with tiny sequins, their wings with silver threads. Corn and tiny insects are carved and painted on the upper guard and gorge sticks. Guard length 13.5 inches or 34cm
Not Sold

 

. The first fan is in very good order. The other two both have badly split leaves, and the bone fan lacks a good section of the upper guard.

 


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Auction: The Fan Collection, 11th Oct, 2019

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