27th Jun, 2019 11:30 GMT/BST

The Fan Collection

 
  Lot 2126
 

2126

A Late 19th/Early 20th Century Pink Mother-of-Pearl Fan, the monture with light silvered decoration

A Late 19th/Early 20th Century Pink Mother-of-Pearl Fan, the monture with light silvered decoration to include a butterfly on the tip of the upper guard. The yellow organdie leaf is overlaid with olive green silk, cut away in regular sections to reveal the organdie, these sections bordered with gold sequins. Elsewhere the silk is embroidered with star shaped gold sequins with the addition of silver sequin swags, other silver spangles in larger and more interesting shapes within the upper panels. Together with a card fan box covered and lined in cream silk, god initials to the exterior, probably M G, and marked inside the lid, in gold, for Ate Buissot, Fabrique D'Eventails, rue de Clery 25 (Paris). Guard length 9 inches or 24cm
Purchased at Christie's SK on December 5th 1978 for £22.00

Sold for £110
Estimated at £120 - £150


 

. The fan is in very good order save for one rib being detached from the MOP gorge stick. All parts present. Some damage to the silk on the fan box.

 


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Auction: The Fan Collection, 27th Jun, 2019

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