拍品 55
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A fan, the chickenskin leaf painted with a vignette of three kittens amidst Pompeiian decoration and monograms LA or CA with an Earl's coronet above, the ivory sticks finely carved and pierced with musicians - 11in., English, circa 1780 - in contemporary box inscribed L[ad]y Aylesford 9 (lacks lid)

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A fan, the chickenskin leaf painted with a vignette of three kittens amidst Pompeiian decoration and monograms LA or CA with an Earl's coronet above, the ivory sticks finely carved and pierced with musicians - 11in., English, circa 1780 - in contemporary box inscribed L[ad]y Aylesford 9 (lacks lid)

See colour plate 6

拍品專文

Louisa, Countess of Aylesford (1760 - 1832). Lady Louise Thynne, an accomplished flower painter married in 1781 Heanage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford. He was an amateur landscape painter and an etcher of great distinction