Details
A fan with a leaf painted with a shaped vignette
of lovers by the Altar of Love, two oval vignettes, one of a boy building a house of cards, and two portrait miniatures of ladies under mica, the reserves painted with urns on plinths and busti on pillasters and decorated with insertions of silver foil, the verso painted with three vignettes and flowers and numbered: 04709, the ivory sticks carved, pierced and gilt - 10in. (25cm.), French or German, circa 1760, (two sticks repaired)
See colour illustration on the cover
of lovers by the Altar of Love, two oval vignettes, one of a boy building a house of cards, and two portrait miniatures of ladies under mica, the reserves painted with urns on plinths and busti on pillasters and decorated with insertions of silver foil, the verso painted with three vignettes and flowers and numbered: 04709, the ivory sticks carved, pierced and gilt - 10in. (25cm.), French or German, circa 1760, (two sticks repaired)
See colour illustration on the cover
Provenance
H.M. Queen Marie of Rumania