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Madrid--Plaza Mayor... Madrid.
Estimate
4,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description
- [Spain, c.1775], folding paper fan with a hand-coloured engraved view of the Plaza Mayor with mounted and foot soldiers and spectators, either side with manuscript explanatory key within watercolour frame, decorated with putti, flowers and leaves, the verso with a watercolour scene of bull-fighting set in the country, both sides heightened with gilt, mounted on enamelled, pierced and carved ivory sticks, 26.5cm. (10.3in.)
- ivory
Catalogue Note
The Museo Municipal in Madrid has a fan with an identical leaf and slightly different sticks. (Mayor, Collecting Fans, 1980, p.43; Armstrong, Fans in Spain, 2004, pp.214-5)