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Artcult is offering you a selection of sales' results, commented and analysed by specialists of the art market. Up to December 15 2007 over 18,500 auction results in French and 11,300 in English recorded in Europe and in the U.S have already been selected in the categories listed below.
fan mounted on ivory branches pierced with gold and silver mounts painted on vellum with a decor showing the birth of Louis, son of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette, background representing a view of Saint Ouen and a scene showing France crowning a medallion supported by an angel surrounded by flowers and fruit in a frame also with a festival book and the head of a chinese with musicians and a negro boy in a gallery with six dormer-windows, 18th Century
Delvaux group, Drouot-Paris. 18th Century fans are usually selling well (between $ 1,000 and 6,000) but this one reached quite a big price though not as impressive as the 190,000 FF ($ 30,160) bid recorded for a 19th Century mother of pearl fan decorated on its branches with human figures and angels and porcelain medallions and ruby cross-pieces with a vellum sheet painted with a country scene and another on the verso showing Love angels gathering grapes, signed A. Solde and dated 1858 from the «Maison Alexandre».