The Judgment of Paris, a painted fan, the ivory sticks carved with figures dancing and drinking, and pique and cloute with silver - 11in.(28cm.), English, circa 1730 - in contemporary fan box covered in decorative paper stamped Good Salop [Shrewsbury] 12 and G S 6 6 - (lacks one stick)
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The Judgment of Paris, a painted fan, the ivory sticks carved with figures dancing and drinking, and pique and cloute with silver - 11in.(28cm.), English, circa 1730 - in contemporary fan box covered in decorative paper stamped Good Salop [Shrewsbury] 12 and G S 6 6 - (lacks one stick)
Lot Essay
Signed English 18th century provincial fan cases are extremely rare. Only one other with a Bath milliner's label in the Lennox-Boyd collection is known