9th Mar, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

The Fan Collection

 
  Lot 2073
 

2073

A Fine Quality Art Nouveau Mother-of-Pearl Fan, the green/pink monture carved and lightly...

A Fine Quality Art Nouveau Mother-of-Pearl Fan, the green/pink monture carved and lightly pierced, silvered and gilded. The double leaf, in dark cream, shows an elegant lady in fine costume seated in a salon decorated with sumptuous furnishings, a bewigged suitor kissing her fingers, whilst a cherub hides behind a screen. The reserves feature extravagant swags of flowers and ribbons and the upper border cornucopia, being additionally embroidered with minute gold sequins to the top edge. Signed A Faugeron. Together with a cream card fan box, the inner lid with an-shaped label for "Nathalie 187 Sloane Street London; and A Later Wooden Fan, the sticks painted light grey and decorated with silvering, the double leaf cream satin to the recto, applied with cream machine lace and marabou feathers, two winged cherubs and tiny pink flowers featuring to the centre. The verso is plain. Guard lengths 9.75 inches or 25cm, and 13.5 inches or 34cm (2)

Sold for £220
Estimated at £70 - £100


 

The first fan is clean, one gorge stick has been repaired near the rivet, as has the upper section of the upper guard. The marabou on the second fan is sparse in places. Slight brown staining in places.

 


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Auction: The Fan Collection, 9th Mar, 2019

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