A fine fan by Alexandre with applique gold guardsticks, signed W[illiam] Wyld, the leaf painted with a capriccio of the bay of Naples, with figures in sixteenth century dress in the foreground, signed W. Wyld, the verso of cannepin painted with berries and insects, signed Alexandre in gold, the tortoiseshell sticks pierced and gilt with foil, the guardsticks set with gold panels chassed with classical lovers and putti in rocaille - 11in. (29cm.), circa 1860 (some gold foil missing from sticks, one stick repaired, tortoiseshell slightly pitted)

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A fine fan by Alexandre with applique gold guardsticks, signed W[illiam] Wyld, the leaf painted with a capriccio of the bay of Naples, with figures in sixteenth century dress in the foreground, signed W. Wyld, the verso of cannepin painted with berries and insects, signed Alexandre in gold, the tortoiseshell sticks pierced and gilt with foil, the guardsticks set with gold panels chassed with classical lovers and putti in rocaille - 11in. (29cm.), circa 1860 (some gold foil missing from sticks, one stick repaired, tortoiseshell slightly pitted)
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Lot Essay

William Wyld, R.W.S. (1806-1889), a distinguished English water-colour painter in the style of his friend Richard Parkes Bonnington. He studied painting in Paris and worked there much of his life producing prints and topographical watercolours. He exhibited regularly in the Salon from 1839. He was created a Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur in 1855. He died in Paris on Christmas day 1889

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