A fan, the chickenskin leaf painted with the Chateau d'Eu in a wooded landscape by a river, signed Paul-Roux 1885, the verso with a Gothic revival chapel in a landscape, inscribed Duvelleroy, Paris, the mother of pearl sticks carved with Diana and attendants, backed with mother of pearl and gilt, the guardsticks carved with Ceres, one set with the shield of France with a label for difference, the other with the Arms of Denmark - 12.5in., 1885 - in Duvelleroy Paris box, the lid painted with a crown

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A fan, the chickenskin leaf painted with the Chateau d'Eu in a wooded landscape by a river, signed Paul-Roux 1885, the verso with a Gothic revival chapel in a landscape, inscribed Duvelleroy, Paris, the mother of pearl sticks carved with Diana and attendants, backed with mother of pearl and gilt, the guardsticks carved with Ceres, one set with the shield of France with a label for difference, the other with the Arms of Denmark - 12.5in., 1885 - in Duvelleroy Paris box, the lid painted with a crown

Lot Essay

Paul Louis Joseph Roux (d.1918) was a pupil of Cabarels

On September 18 1984, lot 139 Christie's South Kensington sold another fan made for the same bride, Princess Marie d'Orleans, daughter of Duc de Chartres who married Prince Valdemar of Denmark in 1885

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