Lot 80
80
A fine fan by Alexandre, the leaf painted with a theatrical scene of lovers and attendants, the verso of canepin painted with a border of arabasques and signed Alexandre in gold, the ivory sticks carved and pierced and set with carved and pierced mother of pearl plaques, the guardsticks carved in high relief with putti and trophies of love, the fore-edges also carved to form a bunch of flowers when closed - 11in (29cm.), French, circa 1865 - in brown leather box lined with pale blue satin by Alexandre Eventailliste de leurs Majestes l'Imperatrice des Francais, L'Imperatrice de Russie, La Reine d'Angleterre, La Reine d'Espagne, 11 Boulevard Montmartre Paris (one of the mother of pearl plaques slightly defective)
A fine fan by Alexandre, the leaf painted with a theatrical scene of lovers and attendants, the verso of canepin painted with a border of arabasques and signed Alexandre in gold, the ivory sticks carved and pierced and set with carved and pierced mother of pearl plaques, the guardsticks carved in high relief with putti and trophies of love, the fore-edges also carved to form a bunch of flowers when closed - 11in (29cm.), French, circa 1865 - in brown leather box lined with pale blue satin by Alexandre Eventailliste de leurs Majestes l'Imperatrice des Francais, L'Imperatrice de Russie, La Reine d'Angleterre, La Reine d'Espagne, 11 Boulevard Montmartre Paris (one of the mother of pearl plaques slightly defective)

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A fine fan by Alexandre, the leaf painted with a theatrical scene of lovers and attendants, the verso of canepin painted with a border of arabasques and signed Alexandre in gold, the ivory sticks carved and pierced and set with carved and pierced mother of pearl plaques, the guardsticks carved in high relief with putti and trophies of love, the fore-edges also carved to form a bunch of flowers when closed - 11in (29cm.), French, circa 1865 - in brown leather box lined with pale blue satin by Alexandre Eventailliste de leurs Majestes l'Imperatrice des Francais, L'Imperatrice de Russie, La Reine d'Angleterre, La Reine d'Espagne, 11 Boulevard Montmartre Paris (one of the mother of pearl plaques slightly defective)
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Provenance
The vendor's grandmother

Lot Essay

The sticks are similar to Alexandre fan no. 28 in the Exhibition Imperial Fans from The Hermitage, The Fan Museum 1997, a fan possibly prepared for the engagement or marriage of Maria Alexandrovna who married HLRH The Duke of Edinburgh, son of HLM Queen Victoria. The sticks are described as "recalling that of the tabletier Brisevin"

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