A Striking Fan, the wood sticks painted black, serpentine, the...
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A Striking Fan, the wood sticks painted black, serpentine, the guards of shaped bone. The fan, in "cabriolet" form, created with an upper fabric leaf painted with two elegant ladies being conveyed across water in a gondola, adorned with cerise flowers. Below the central section, the sticks are shaped and decorated in blue, effectively causing a double horizontal band. This design is repeated at the tip of the upper guard. Likely 1920's. The verso is plain. Together with A 19th Century Wood Fan, the monture painted black, the double paper leaf silver to the recto and bronze to the verso (2)
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Lot Description:
A Striking Fan, the wood sticks painted black, serpentine, the guards of shaped bone. The fan, in "cabriolet" form, created with an upper fabric leaf painted with two elegant ladies being conveyed across water in a gondola, adorned with cerise flowers. Below the central section, the sticks are shaped and decorated in blue, effectively causing a double horizontal band. This design is repeated at the tip of the upper guard. Likely 1920's. The verso is plain. Together with A 19th Century Wood Fan, the monture painted black, the double paper leaf silver to the recto and bronze to the verso (2)
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