Lot 465 , A Chinese ivory handled silk fly whisk, fan cases, fans, beaded shoes etc.

A Chinese ivory handled silk fly whisk, fan cases, fans, beaded shoes etc.
Estimate £60-80

Fly whisk handle discoloured fabric pieces generally discoloured, shoes in worn condition

Provenance - Alfred Theodore Arber-Cooke (c.1910-1993); thence by family descent. Arber-Cooke lived in Carmarthenshire, Wales and was an avid collector of European & Asian works of art and an author of the History of Llandovery. He was collecting from the 1940s to the 1980s.


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Sold for £440