Venus pointing the way to love, fan circa 1860
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Venus pointing the way to love, fan circa 1860
Fan, the leaf in fine Brussels needlepoint lace inlaid with a silk cartel painted with a Venus surrounded by lovers.
Mother-of-pearl sticks and guards engraved and inlaid with gold and silver leaf
White mother-of-pearl motifs (flowers, birds, quivers, etc.) are applied to the guards and some of the sticks.
This process is characteristic of the technique invented by the table-maker Louis-Isidore Bastard, known as Bastard-Lanoy, in 1859, for which he registered a patent.
Ref : Georgina Letourmy-Bordier “Le panthéon des tabletiers” in L'éventail. Matières d'excellence Georgina Letourmy-Bordier & Sylvain Le Guen. Musée de la Nacre et de la Tabletterie, Méru, 2015. p.118
Good condition (small tears on lace ; on the reverse, two top of sticks restored).
Size : 29 cm
With a case
Mother-of-pearl sticks and guards engraved and inlaid with gold and silver leaf
White mother-of-pearl motifs (flowers, birds, quivers, etc.) are applied to the guards and some of the sticks.
This process is characteristic of the technique invented by the table-maker Louis-Isidore Bastard, known as Bastard-Lanoy, in 1859, for which he registered a patent.
Ref : Georgina Letourmy-Bordier “Le panthéon des tabletiers” in L'éventail. Matières d'excellence Georgina Letourmy-Bordier & Sylvain Le Guen. Musée de la Nacre et de la Tabletterie, Méru, 2015. p.118
Good condition (small tears on lace ; on the reverse, two top of sticks restored).
Size : 29 cm
With a case
