Description
A fine circa 1820’s pale horn brisé fan, carved and pierced, the twenty inner sticks and two guards with pointed tips, clouté in gold, barrel rivet with gold stone, the fan notable for the complex shaping of the inner sticks, in pairs, with four bands of circles, some pierced, others painted with pale blue ground offsetting winged cherubs with floral garlands, birds in flight, and trophies of love recto/verso, contained in a non-contemporary cream silk covered fan box lined in cream silk, gold label fixed to the underside for “H N V Santen, Kisl.kön.Hoflieferant, Berlin, guard approx. 6.25 inches or 16cm
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A fine circa 1820’s pale horn brisé fan, carved and pierced, the twenty inner sticks and two guards with pointed tips, clouté in gold, barrel rivet with gold stone, the fan notable for the complex shaping of the inner sticks, in pairs, with four bands of circles, some pierced, others painted with pale blue ground offsetting winged cherubs with floral garlands, birds in flight, and trophies of love recto/verso, contained in a non-contemporary cream silk covered fan box lined in cream silk, gold label fixed to the underside for “H N V Santen, Kisl.kön.Hoflieferant, Berlin, guard approx. 6.25 inches or 16cm
