A Vibrant Circa 1870-1880's Fan, featuring an early autumn outdoor...
Lot Description:
A Vibrant Circa 1870-1880's Fan, featuring an early autumn outdoor musical gathering within a grand garden, stone urns resplendent with cascading flowers, lush reeds indicating nearby water, leaves turning brown, and a Herm, perhaps of Pan, in the bushes beside the clearing wherein a beautifully dressed lady, sheet music on her lap, listens to music provided by a dandified gentleman wearing doublet and ruff. Accompanied by a young lady seated on the ground, holding a fan. The verso is plain cream, the monture, of unadorned green/pink mother-of-pearl /Burgau. Together with A Bone Fan, the monture plain, the double cream silk leaf painted on the recto in pink with a young lady in early 19th century dress feeding two white doves from crumbs she has carried in her skirt; and A 19th Century Horn Brisé, the stick tips forming a gentle point, all sticks intricately pierced, alternate sticks painted vertically with flowers in colours of orange and blue, or pastel pink roses with green leaves, the verso being similar. Twenty-one inner sticks and, two guards. Barrel head (3)
Condition Report:
. Light wear to folds on the first fan. Small silver metal plate repair to the upper guard. Fan 2 has leaf splits recto/verso. Fan 3 requires a new ribbon.
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Lot Description:
A Vibrant Circa 1870-1880's Fan, featuring an early autumn outdoor musical gathering within a grand garden, stone urns resplendent with cascading flowers, lush reeds indicating nearby water, leaves turning brown, and a Herm, perhaps of Pan, in the bushes beside the clearing wherein a beautifully dressed lady, sheet music on her lap, listens to music provided by a dandified gentleman wearing doublet and ruff. Accompanied by a young lady seated on the ground, holding a fan. The verso is plain cream, the monture, of unadorned green/pink mother-of-pearl /Burgau. Together with A Bone Fan, the monture plain, the double cream silk leaf painted on the recto in pink with a young lady in early 19th century dress feeding two white doves from crumbs she has carried in her skirt; and A 19th Century Horn Brisé, the stick tips forming a gentle point, all sticks intricately pierced, alternate sticks painted vertically with flowers in colours of orange and blue, or pastel pink roses with green leaves, the verso being similar. Twenty-one inner sticks and, two guards. Barrel head (3)
Condition Report:
. Light wear to folds on the first fan. Small silver metal plate repair to the upper guard. Fan 2 has leaf splits recto/verso. Fan 3 requires a new ribbon.
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