Lot Essay
Belvoir is the seat of the Duke of Rutland
Details
A fine fan painted with a view of Belvoir Castle
with terraces and a maze and a hunt in the foreground, the verso painted with vines, the ivory sticks carved and pierced with dolphins, the handle forms a shell when closed - 11in.(28cm.), English, circa 1740
with terraces and a maze and a hunt in the foreground, the verso painted with vines, the ivory sticks carved and pierced with dolphins, the handle forms a shell when closed - 11in.(28cm.), English, circa 1740
Literature
Illustrated colour plate 26, De Vere Green, op. cit.