The Dream of Endymion, Europe, ca. 1740
Folded fan, the leaf in skin, mounted in English, painted of the shepherd Endymion asleep under the protection of the loves. Venus leads them from a cloud, while a nymph addresses a child riding a horse and holding a trident.
Reverse: sketch of an architecture in a landscape.
Finely cut, carved and engraved ivory* mount of Venus holding an arrow and surrounded by the loves. The plumes carved with a flaming heart, a shepherd, a dog, flowers and foliage. The head enhanced with a white mother-of-pearl plate.
H.t. 28,5 cm-H.f. 15,1 cm (wear, small lack)
WEIGHT 70 gr
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