27th May, 2020 10:30 GMT/BST

Fans and Fancies - Online Only

 
Lot 4012
 

4012

A Mid-18th Century Ivory Fan, the ivory guards deeply carved with scrolls and flowers, the...

A Mid-18th Century Ivory Fan, the ivory guards deeply carved with scrolls and flowers, the gorge sticks featuring two panels, each with chinoiserie figures and drooping trees. The velum leaf, mounted à l'Anglaise, is painted with delicate sprays of various English wild flowers and leaves, namely the dog rose, auricula, daisies, roses and buds, cornflowers and the pasque flower. The verso is equally well painted with a full-blown pink rose, and buds, a rope supporting four more varieties of spring flowers. Guard length 11.5 inches or 29cm. Together with a second ivory fan, a very slender 18th century example, the upper guards delicately carved with shells, the lower section plain but carved and shaped so as to present an interesting stepped design when closed. The plain cream silk (?) leaf is edged in silver. Guard length 10 inches or 25.5cm (2)

Sold for £300
Estimated at £150 - £250


 

. Both very good, clean.

 


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