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Lot Essay
There is a set of similar sticks to the first fan in The Fan Museum Greenwich, exhibited 2003, An American Collection
Details
FOUR FANS
one with the leaf painted with a classical scene, possibly Diana and Endymion, the sepentine ivory sticks gilt with fish, the guardsticks pique in silver with crowns, close to form a sea-serpent with tortoiseshell head--10.5in. (26cm), circa 1770; a fan painted with flowers, with pierced ivory sticks circa 1780; a fan applied with a circular stipple engraving of a muse with lyre with two putti, with bone sticks circa 1790; a fan the vellum leaf with a hunting scene,--10.5in (27cm), mid 18th century, some damages (4)
one with the leaf painted with a classical scene, possibly Diana and Endymion, the sepentine ivory sticks gilt with fish, the guardsticks pique in silver with crowns, close to form a sea-serpent with tortoiseshell head--10.5in. (26cm), circa 1770; a fan painted with flowers, with pierced ivory sticks circa 1780; a fan applied with a circular stipple engraving of a muse with lyre with two putti, with bone sticks circa 1790; a fan the vellum leaf with a hunting scene,--10.5in (27cm), mid 18th century, some damages (4)
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