細節
A fan, the vellum leaf painted in bodycolour with classical scenes, a quatrain of verse written in Alexandrines, possibly from Racine's Iphygenie
Diane sensible aux cris de la Belle Iphygenie,
L'enleve par pitie, quand on veut l'immoler,
Mais inhumaine Iris, qu'elle est la barbarie!
Juno veux que ma mort, qui peut me consoler?
on the pillar with flames, is written Epare par le feu qu'alllume vos beaux yeux
the verso with an inscription on the pedestal on which a cockerel crows Quand ce cocque chantera/Mon amour finira
with mother of pearl and carved ivory sticks and guards --11in. (28cm.), as found, first half of the 18th century; and another, the vellum leaf painted with 'Europa and the Bull', having carved ivory sticks and guards, the montre with shield shaped cartcouche to a figurative ground --10in. (25cm.), mid 18th century, both as found (2)
Diane sensible aux cris de la Belle Iphygenie,
L'enleve par pitie, quand on veut l'immoler,
Mais inhumaine Iris, qu'elle est la barbarie!
Juno veux que ma mort, qui peut me consoler?
on the pillar with flames, is written Epare par le feu qu'alllume vos beaux yeux
the verso with an inscription on the pedestal on which a cockerel crows Quand ce cocque chantera/Mon amour finira
with mother of pearl and carved ivory sticks and guards --11in. (28cm.), as found, first half of the 18th century; and another, the vellum leaf painted with 'Europa and the Bull', having carved ivory sticks and guards, the montre with shield shaped cartcouche to a figurative ground --10in. (25cm.), mid 18th century, both as found (2)
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