A découpé fan, the leaf of finely cut paper work with one large and six small finely painted vignettes, recto and verso, recto with Venus, putti and dolphins, and miniature landscapes with castles, and with birds and butterflies, the recto with classical landscapes with ruins in carmine, by Ignaz Preissler of Bratislava (or Pressburg) but unsigned, with ivory sticks - 11in., Bohemian, early 18th century (old repairs, and two panels replaced with machine lace)

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A découpé fan, the leaf of finely cut paper work with one large and six small finely painted vignettes, recto and verso, recto with Venus, putti and dolphins, and miniature landscapes with castles, and with birds and butterflies, the recto with classical landscapes with ruins in carmine, by Ignaz Preissler of Bratislava (or Pressburg) but unsigned, with ivory sticks - 11in., Bohemian, early 18th century (old repairs, and two panels replaced with machine lace)

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Provenance

Faucon, no. 2702, 1929

Lot Essay

A very similar fan, with different sticks, in the Bayerischer Nationalmuseum, Munich was exhibited in Facher, 1987, no.4 as the work of Ignaz Preissler, the porcelain painter. Another fan, rather similar, in the Messel-Rosse Collection, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge is illustrated in Rhead, p. 107

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