'Ballooning' fan, the paper leaf printed with a stipple engraving and hand coloured with a family watching a young girl holding a cord attached to the basket of an ascending balloon carrying a scared pet cat and Punchinello, the verso with Cupid holding audience with six ladies inscribed Bellville No.332, the sticks of pierced and sequinned horn, the guardsticks of ebony and mother of pearl - 8 ½in (21.5cm), French, circa 1830; another with a bride fainting upon her husband as she is confronted with his illigitimate child, the sticks of pierced, sequinned horn, the guardsticks set with metal panels decorated with foil (2)

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'Ballooning' fan, the paper leaf printed with a stipple engraving and hand coloured with a family watching a young girl holding a cord attached to the basket of an ascending balloon carrying a scared pet cat and Punchinello, the verso with Cupid holding audience with six ladies inscribed Bellville No.332, the sticks of pierced and sequinned horn, the guardsticks of ebony and mother of pearl - 8 ½in (21.5cm), French, circa 1830; another with a bride fainting upon her husband as she is confronted with his illigitimate child, the sticks of pierced, sequinned horn, the guardsticks set with metal panels decorated with foil (2)

拍品專文

A fan with the print of Cupid holding an audience on the recto was sold at Christie's 25 May 1999, lot 79

Bellville was a celebrated fan leaf maker in rue S. Martin