21st Sep, 2018 9:30 GMT/BST

Country House (Part I)

 
  Lot 522
 

522

A Good and Large 19th Century Chinese Carved Bone Fan, Qing Dynasty, lightly carved and...

A Good and Large 19th Century Chinese Carved Bone Fan, Qing Dynasty, lightly carved and pierced, mounted with white feathers, delicately and colourfully painted with a central couple holding a fan and a lidded bowl, to each side further painting of flowers and exotic fruit, the tips finished with peacock feather. The verso has further painted flowers. Silk tassel to the basic loop. Together with a smaller carved bone Chinese fan, lightly gilded monture, mounted with black feathers painted on the recto with colourful birds with long green tails, surrounded by mainly blue and red flowers, the verso painted in a similar fashion with two birds and flowers (2)

Sold for £130
Estimated at £80 - £200


 

. Gilding quite dull, paint still in good condition, the feathers centrally to the recto a little crumpled.

 


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Auction: Country House (Part I), 21st Sep, 2018

Country House (Part I)

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