Details
A fan, the leaf painted with the Paradise of the Gods, the ivory sticks partly stained alternately with green and red and inscribed in old French with amorous mottoes and vignettes such as Il est sans second, J'ai perdu ma liberté, Nous n'avons qu'un feu, La fuite est vaine, Un seul m'a suffi, Il n'y a place que pour vous, clouté with circles of mother of pearl - 12in., Wolloon, early 18th century
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Provenance
Faucon, no. 2899, 1927
LITERATURE: There is a similar fan illustrated in Mayor, S., Collecting Fans, 1980, page 103, sold Christie's South Kensington, Baldwin Collection, 4th May 1978, lot 13 - #320. That fan was in the Exhibition Der Schoenen Blicke Zugel, Schloss Bruchsal, Carlsruhe, 1989. Another fan of this type is in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Gostelow, Mary, A Collector's Guide to Fans, 1976, figure 49. This fan is much longer than that in the Baldwin Collection and the painting is definitely early so it is likely that the Baldwin Collection fan is also earlier than was thought at the time
LITERATURE: There is a similar fan illustrated in Mayor, S., Collecting Fans, 1980, page 103, sold Christie's South Kensington, Baldwin Collection, 4th May 1978, lot 13 - #320. That fan was in the Exhibition Der Schoenen Blicke Zugel, Schloss Bruchsal, Carlsruhe, 1989. Another fan of this type is in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Gostelow, Mary, A Collector's Guide to Fans, 1976, figure 49. This fan is much longer than that in the Baldwin Collection and the painting is definitely early so it is likely that the Baldwin Collection fan is also earlier than was thought at the time