Lot Essay
A comparable ivory screen was sold at Christie's South Kensington, 13 February 1999, lot 257.
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CIRCA 1880
Details
A French ivory face screen
Circa 1880
The shaped rectangular screen flanked to each corner by an emblematic figure, centred by a panel depicting an angel carrying a child over a landscape with a moonlit sky, on a stem flanked to each side by a winged caryatid, on a spreading pierced base with acanthus
16 in. (40.5 cm.) high
Circa 1880
The shaped rectangular screen flanked to each corner by an emblematic figure, centred by a panel depicting an angel carrying a child over a landscape with a moonlit sky, on a stem flanked to each side by a winged caryatid, on a spreading pierced base with acanthus
16 in. (40.5 cm.) high