Lot 101
101
Musique Champetre, a fan signed Tony Faivre and dated 1876, the leaf painted in smokey tones on a yellow ground, heightened in gold and white, the verso painted with monogram S.C. or S.C.O. in a spray of flowers, and inscribed Duvelleroy London 1877, the ivory sticks finely carved with a basket of flowers, lovebirds and trophies of music, gilt, the foredge of the sticks carved to show leaves and beading when closed, signed on verso Jorel spcit. - 12in. (30cm.), French for the English market, 1877 - with a box by Voisin
Musique Champetre, a fan signed Tony Faivre and dated 1876, the leaf painted in smokey tones on a yellow ground, heightened in gold and white, the verso painted with monogram S.C. or S.C.O. in a spray of flowers, and inscribed Duvelleroy London 1877, the ivory sticks finely carved with a basket of flowers, lovebirds and trophies of music, gilt, the foredge of the sticks carved to show leaves and beading when closed, signed on verso Jorel spcit. - 12in. (30cm.), French for the English market, 1877 - with a box by Voisin

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Musique Champetre, a fan signed Tony Faivre and dated 1876, the leaf painted in smokey tones on a yellow ground, heightened in gold and white, the verso painted with monogram S.C. or S.C.O. in a spray of flowers, and inscribed Duvelleroy London 1877, the ivory sticks finely carved with a basket of flowers, lovebirds and trophies of music, gilt, the foredge of the sticks carved to show leaves and beading when closed, signed on verso Jorel spcit. - 12in. (30cm.), French for the English market, 1877 - with a box by Voisin
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Lot Essay

Antoine-Jean-Etienne, known as Tony, Faivre (1830-1905), was a pupil of Picot. He exhibited at the Salon from 1848 and won a medal in 1864. Alfred Jorel was a sculptor from Andeville. He carved some of the fans commissioned by Count Demidoff-San Donato in about 1875 and signed four, these were sold at Christie's South Kensington on 11 June 1991. He also signed a fan rather similar to this fan although it also has enamelled medallions, dating from 1869, illustrated plate 37, in Eventails Europeens..., Maryse Volet, Vesenaz, 1994

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