A 19th century Chinese carved ivory brise fan
A 19th century Chinese carved ivory brise fan, the twenty-one inner sticks and two guards featuring a central oval containing figures and trees, surrounded by figures amongst willow, pavilions and prunus, the tips featuring hermit crabs and shells beneath individual figures, the guards carved with dragons, guard length 19cm
Condition Report:
There are some old metal pinned repairs to both guards where they have both been cracked and repaired in at least two places (one guard and one stick with multiple pinned repairs and associated old ivory patched repairs and the other guard with one pinned repair visible). Areas of old discoloured glue are visible to repaired areas. Some slight and relatively minor losses to pierced fretwork to the sticks, the ribbon may perhaps be a later replacement, it has certainly been reattached to one guard, The quality of the carving is intricate, it is a very decoraative example and has been well executed.
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A 19th century Chinese carved ivory brise fan, the twenty-one inner sticks and two guards featuring a central oval containing figures and trees, surrounded by figures amongst willow, pavilions and prunus, the tips featuring hermit crabs and shells beneath individual figures, the guards carved with dragons, guard length 19cm
Condition Report:
There are some old metal pinned repairs to both guards where they have both been cracked and repaired in at least two places (one guard and one stick with multiple pinned repairs and associated old ivory patched repairs and the other guard with one pinned repair visible). Areas of old discoloured glue are visible to repaired areas. Some slight and relatively minor losses to pierced fretwork to the sticks, the ribbon may perhaps be a later replacement, it has certainly been reattached to one guard, The quality of the carving is intricate, it is a very decoraative example and has been well executed.
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