1600089

Louis XVI marriage air balloons fan 18th c #1600089

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Louis XVI marriage air balloons fan 18th c #1600089
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Exquisite 18th century Marie Antoinette style French Louis XVI marriage fan made for a French Aristocrat. This is Versailles quality. The front of fan has 3 reserves, each beautifully handpainted with Old Master Boucher style mythological scene on silk. The two on the sides depict playful cherubs. The central, larger reserve has a beautiful bejeweled young woman being courted by a Classical hero with an animal skin draped over one shoulder. An angel or putto hovers over the woman's shoulder holding a bow and arrow. They sit in a Classic mythological landscape garden, beautifully painted with trees and urns.The paintings are edges with gold thread & sequins at the top and the bottom of the painting. The whole piece is set with little gold sequins delicately sewn on. Each reserve has a complicated double border with gold thread loops and bows, containing fine gold sequins. These, in turn, are surrounded by sprigs of colorful flowers, also handpainted and adorned with a fine golden chain thread. The back of the leaf was prepared for identical painting, but while the outlines were drawn in iron red, the painting was left undone.
The sticks and guards are pierced and have very fine openwork and embossed inlay or pique work with some gold inlay of patterns of hot air balloons,Montgolfier, architectural settings, figures of women and bird sellers and insects all done in three deferent colors of gold, yellow,rose,green inlayed into the guards. The whole piece is set with little sequins ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Good </td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1785</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:Paris Freance </td></tr>





<tr><td>Title: Louis XVI marriage air balloons fan 18th c</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Neoclassical </td></tr>
<tr><td>Materials: diamonds silk paint and gold </td></tr>
<tr><td>Type:Marie Antoinette style </td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:Historic Baltimore MD</td></tr>
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