Lot 490 , An English painted paper and lacquer fan, late 18th century and a 19th century Chinese embroidered silk purse

An English painted paper and 'lacquer' fan, late 18th century and a 19th century Chinese embroidered silk purse the fan with lacquered and abalone inlaid 'dragon' sticks and objects to the guards, 25.5cm the purse woven with aquatic creatures, 9cm
Estimate £40-60

Some of the fan sticks are damaged, splits to the paper leaf and losses to lacquer, 10th is cracked with section missing. Some losses to lacquer on other bar. Some Purse - one panel (decorated with single fish) with silver fish damage and some loss. Silk is faded and split.


Provenance - Alfred Theodore Arber-Cooke (c.1905-1993); thence by family descent. Arber-Cooke was an antiquarian and avid collector of Asian works of art, and antiquities principally collecting from the 1930s to the 1970s. He amassed a good reference library on Chinese & Asian coins and wrote on several occasions (1969-70) to to the academic F.A. Turk regarding the study of coin amulets and other non-currency coinages of China. A number of the Asian numismatic reference books will be offered in our 29th March sale.

Arber-Cooke initially lived in Wimbledon, Greater London and was involved with the Surrey Archaeological Society. He wrote the book 'Old Wimbledon', with a foreword the MP Sir Arthur Fell, published in 1927. He later moved to Llandovery in Carmarthenshire, Wales, again involved with local archaeology and wrote the History of Llandovery, published in 1975.


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Sold for £240