A pierced ivory brise fan painted with a double portrait of a royal couple, two circular landscapes in tones of blue supported by pairs of golden beasts, and decorated with spangles in the form of crowns and flowerheads, the lower end of the sticks and the guardsticks painted with chinoiserie - 8in., late 17th century (ribbon replaced)

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A pierced ivory brise fan painted with a double portrait of a royal couple, two circular landscapes in tones of blue supported by pairs of golden beasts, and decorated with spangles in the form of crowns and flowerheads, the lower end of the sticks and the guardsticks painted with chinoiserie - 8in., late 17th century (ribbon replaced)

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There are a number of similar fans, the closest is in the Meinfrankisches Museum, Wurzburg and is probably by the same hand and shows the same royal pair but he is wearing red and they are painted on separate miniatures and the beasts are silvered rather than gilt. This is illustrated plate 2, Facher des 17 - 20 Jahrhunderts, 1993. S.A.R.la Infanta Da.Isabel exhibited a similar fan cat. no.30 in Exposicion de "El Abanico en Espana", Madrid 1920. That fan had portraits of Le Grand Dauphin and his bride, no spangles and no vignettes. In Eventails by F. de Perthuis and V. Meylan, Paris 1989, p25 there is another similar fan commemorating the marriage of Le Duc de Bourgogne, eldest grandson of Louis XIV with Marie Adelaide de Savoie, 1697.