A MOTHER-OF-PEARL FAN
Lot 71

A MOTHER-OF-PEARL FAN

BY DUVELLEROY, PAINTED BY MAURICE LE LOIR, CIRCA 1870

Closed7 June 2017

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GBP 3,250

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A MOTHER-OF-PEARL FAN
BY DUVELLEROY, PAINTED BY MAURICE LE LOIR, CIRCA 1870
The chicken skin leaf painted with family portraits including Lionel and Charlotte Rothschild and Nathaniel, Emma and Lionel Rothschild, surrounded by putti, some bearing the birth dates of Evelina, Lionel and Nathaniel Rothschild, one commemorating the 25th wedding anniversary of Nathaniel and Emma Rothschild, with two vignettes of Tring Park, one interior and one exterior, the verso with monogram ER beneath the coronet, signed ‘Maurice Le Loir’ to upper right, signed verso DUVELLEROY, in a later gilt-leather and glazed case

Probably Emma Louisa von Rothschild, and by descent to her daughter Charlotte Louise Adela Evelina Behrens (née Rothschild), and by descent.