Folding fan with leather leaf showing Eliezer and Rebecca in watercolor at the source, on a frame of ajour and embossed mother-of-pearl, Folding fan with leather leaf showing the Bible story of Eliezer and Rebecca. Eliezer gives Rebecca a ring and holds two more bracelets in his right hand. There is a striking discrepancy between the ornamentation on the sheet in a Louis XV style and that on the frame, which is made in Louis XIV style. Furthermore, the theme chosen for the decoration of the frame, country life, does not fit in with the presentation of the magazine at all. It is therefore possible that an older sheet has been applied to a new frame here. The reverse side of the leaf is unpainted. The usual connection between pastoral and love symbolism is made on the frame. In the middle reserve are a countryman and a herdinnetje on a pile of hay sheaves. In the medallions on either side of this, there is an open basket between a number of hay stoves from which two birds fly away. on the outer legs another putto with a flower basket and two different pastoral trophies. [See Du Mortier, 1992]. The frame has 22 contiguous legs of ajour and embossed mother-of-pearl. The locking pin is made of ground red glass., anonymous, Netherlands, c. 1775, blad, montuur, sluitpin, grinding, s 52.5 cm × l 28.2 cm
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