拍品 102
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The Battle of Bunker Hill, a painted fan commemorating the battle with a caricature of a lady in wearing a high hairstyle decorated with the battle scene, to the left the battle and the right an English ship, the reserves painted with butterflies, the verso with a landscape vignette, the ivory sticks carved and pierced with chinoiserie figures with telescopes and painted with butterflies - 10in. (26cm.), 1776 (old repairs to two sticks and one cracked)
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The Battle of Bunker Hill, a painted fan commemorating the battle with a caricature of a lady in wearing a high hairstyle decorated with the battle scene, to the left the battle and the right an English ship, the reserves painted with butterflies, the verso with a landscape vignette, the ivory sticks carved and pierced with chinoiserie figures with telescopes and painted with butterflies - 10in. (26cm.), 1776 (old repairs to two sticks and one cracked)

細節
The Battle of Bunker Hill, a painted fan commemorating the battle with a caricature of a lady in wearing a high hairstyle decorated with the battle scene, to the left the battle and the right an English ship, the reserves painted with butterflies, the verso with a landscape vignette, the ivory sticks carved and pierced with chinoiserie figures with telescopes and painted with butterflies - 10in. (26cm.), 1776 (old repairs to two sticks and one cracked)
See Illustration on front cover
出版
Mayor, Susan, The Letts Guide to Collecting Fans, 1990; and The Collector's Guide to Fans, 1995, illustrated p. 35
注意事項
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品專文

James Stevens Cox, An Illustrated Dictionary of Hairdressing & Wigmaking, 1989, plate 378, p. 290 illustrates a print of a very similar Bunker Hill hairstyle
There is a mezzotint 'droll' of the subjet.
The Battle of Bunker Hill, 1776, was one of the major battles of the American War of Independence