FOUR FANS
19TH CENTURY
The first with mother-of-pearl sticks cloute in silver and gilt, the gauze leaf applied with oval vignettes and signed E E Murray, painted with jay and pheasant feathers and embellished with gilt sequins; in white satin Duvellroy box ; another, probably French, the mother of pearl sticks carved, silver and gilt and pierced, painted with a pastoral scene; another, the mother of pearl sticks with gilt mesh leaf applied with gilt embroidered trophies of gardening among scrolling foliage, embellished with gilt sequins; in Duvellroy box with a paper slip ‘Fan presented by RH when she opened St Botolph's Hall, Bishopsgate, for the Worshipful Company of Fanmakers 23.10.52’; another spangled fan with tortoiseshell sticks
The largest: 9 ¾ in. (25 cm.) long
FOUR FANS
19TH CENTURY
The first with mother-of-pearl sticks cloute in silver and gilt, the gauze leaf applied with oval vignettes and signed E E Murray, painted with jay and pheasant feathers and embellished with gilt sequins; in white satin Duvellroy box ; another, probably French, the mother of pearl sticks carved, silver and gilt and pierced, painted with a pastoral scene; another, the mother of pearl sticks with gilt mesh leaf applied with gilt embroidered trophies of gardening among scrolling foliage, embellished with gilt sequins; in Duvellroy box with a paper slip ‘Fan presented by RH when she opened St Botolph's Hall, Bishopsgate, for the Worshipful Company of Fanmakers 23.10.52’; another spangled fan with tortoiseshell sticks
The largest: 9 ¾ in. (25 cm.) long
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