Details
A rare handscreen, of plaited straw with ivory handle - 18in. (46cm.), probably Venetian or Florentine, 16th century
See colour Illustration on front cover
See colour Illustration on front cover
Literature
There is a very similar fan in the Herbert Horne collection, Museo Horne, Florence, inv.number 763. The fan from the Horne Collection was exbibited in Ventagli Italiani, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, 1990, catalogue no. 3
There is a portait by Titian at Dresden (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Inv. No. 120) of a lady holding a handscreen.
There is a portait by Titian at Dresden (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Inv. No. 120) of a lady holding a handscreen.