Lot Essay
Ferdinand or Fernando Coustellier was of a long established Paris fan making family and had premises at Rue Bourg L'Abbe 32 in 1823 and from 1832 he advertised that he had a factory in Valencia.
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Details
King Charles IV of Spain and his Queen, Maria Luisa of Parma
a printed fan, the leaf applied with stipple engraved portraits of the King and Queen, after Goya, and of King Charles III, the verso with a hand-coloured stipple engraving of the Baptism of the Princess of the Asturias, later Queen Isabel II (b.1830), incribed F. C. No. 541, for Ferdinand Coustellier, with pierced gilt metal sticks, the guardsticks of ormolu in Palais Royal style set with turquoise and paste, and partly backed with mother of pearl - 7in. (17cm.), French for the Spanish market - circa 1825
See Illustration of verso
a printed fan, the leaf applied with stipple engraved portraits of the King and Queen, after Goya, and of King Charles III, the verso with a hand-coloured stipple engraving of the Baptism of the Princess of the Asturias, later Queen Isabel II (b.1830), incribed F. C. No. 541, for Ferdinand Coustellier, with pierced gilt metal sticks, the guardsticks of ormolu in Palais Royal style set with turquoise and paste, and partly backed with mother of pearl - 7in. (17cm.), French for the Spanish market - circa 1825
See Illustration of verso
Provenance
Important Collection of Fans, Christie's South Kensington, 11 June 1991 Colin Lawton Johnson
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