Lot Essay
Medea driven mad with jealousy, killed her children and served them to the faithless Jason
Details
Medea, a fan, the leaf painted with Jason marrying his second wife and the rejected Medea, the ivory sticks finely carved and pierced with four pairs of twins, probably Medea's tragic children, a couple, musicians and dolphins - 11in. (28cm.), circa 1730 (repairs to four sticks)
Provenance
The Collection of Colin Lawton Johnson, CSK lot 138, 22 May 1996
Exhibited
Orlando Museum of Art, Fans a la Mode, the Collection of Colin Lawton Johson, 1988, catalogue no. 30.
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