27th May, 2020 10:30 GMT/BST

Fans and Fancies - Online Only

 
  Lot 4189
 

4189

Cats! A Group of Four 20th Century Fans featuring felines, comprising a folding fan of bamboo...

Cats! A Group of Four 20th Century Fans featuring felines, comprising a folding fan of bamboo mounted with a paper leaf, painted with a shaded pink background and then painted with the head and shoulders of a white cat with large green eyes, wearing a blue ribbon. Signed by H Devitt. The narrow guards have an overlay of pink mother-of-pearl, and are 9 inches or 23cm long; a small cream celluloid fan painted with a white kitten in a basket of pink roses, the roses also painted on the upper guard. Signed AMK and dated 2017; a Chinese fan printed with a kitten chasing a leaf, marked as made in the People's Republic of China, the reserves of colourful flowers and foliage. The verso features a hand-written letter to Judith Elliott from her friend the artist Aafke Brouwer. Guard length 10.5 inches or 26.5cm; finally a modern plastic fan with white leaf, painted by Judith Elliott with eight cats in various poses, and entitled "A medley of Kats". Guard length 10.5 inches or 26.5cm (4)

Sold for £110
Estimated at £50 - £70


 

. All appear unused.

 


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