20th Nov, 2020 12:00 GMT/BST

Fans & Fancies - Online auction

 
  Lot 5151
 

5151

A Very Attractive Circa 1900 Brussels Needle Lace Fan, the Art Nouveau designed leaf mounted...

A Very Attractive Circa 1900 Brussels Needle Lace Fan, the Art Nouveau designed leaf mounted onto slightly pink mother-of-pearl sticks and continuous ribs, the guards and gorge carved, pierced, gilded and silvered. The crisp needle lace leaf is designed with large, intricate, stylised flowers and leaves along the top border, the main body of the fan featuring meandering stems and smaller flowers in different sizes and varieties. Handmade ground with the addition of tiny dots. The plain metal loop is fitted with a good cream silk knotted tassel. Contained in a card fan box covered in cream silk, the inside lid printed with J Duvelleroy, 17 Passage des Panoramas and 8-11 Boul'd de la Madelaine" (Paris). Guard length 9.5 inches or 24cm.

Sold for £600
Estimated at £400 - £700


 

. In very good order, original thread colour, crisp leaf.

 


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Auction: Fans & Fancies - Online auction, 20th Nov, 2020

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