Lot Essay
See Unfolding Beauty, Anna Gray Bennett, New York, 1988, Oldham Collection cat. no.28, for a fan with very similar sticks
Details
A fan, the leaf of plain gauze, the ivory serpentine sticks gilded with fish, the guardsticks painted green, ending in a serpent's head, piqué with silver, fillet of tortoiseshell - 10 1/2in., (27cm), 1720s, English or Dutch, in 18th century case
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