Important hand screen called chauri, with turned... Lot 360

Important hand screen called chauri, with turned ivory handle, engraved and inked with red ink. Large leaf lined with red cloth, hand-stitched, attached to the handle with ivory pegs. Ceylon, Kandy region, 18th century Total height : 88 cm Length of handle : 47 cm Button length : 10 cm Total gross weight : 1295 g These fans, called chauris, were intended for important people (among others Buddhist monks) Buddhist monks) during processions and great festivals. Made in Ceylon in the region of Kandy, they are typical of this are typical of the very refined production of the ivory carvers of this period covering the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries (the kingdom of Kandy ended in 1815). Our example is of a remarkable, if not exceptional remarkable, if not exceptional, as the copy kept in the department of objets d'art of the Louvre being nearly ten centimeters smaller. Comparative examples in public collections: - PARIS, Musée du Louvre, OA 12289; SN 115; S 1410, for a screen of more elaborate workmanship but with of comparable decoration, with slightly smaller dimensions (79.8 cm) - SINGAPORE, Asian Civilizations Museum, inv. N° 2016-00222 for a screen of similar workmanship (51.5 cm). - SINGAPORE, Asian Civilization Museum, inv. N°2016-00127, for a single handle (39 cm) - NEW YORK, Metropolitan Museum, inv. N° 2010.475.9a,b, for a similar handle (49 cm) Comparative bibliography on the subject: - MALGOUYRES Philippe, Ivories of the Renaissance and Modern Times. La collection du Musée du Louvre, Paris, Musée du Louvre ; Editions Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2010, p. 248, ill. p. 248-249, n°198 - PEDROSO Maria-Luisa Brisas de Leques-ventos do Oriente, Santarem, 2014, p. 52. - Histoires d'ivoire, cat. exp. (Châlons-en-Champagne (France), Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie, 2007), Châlons-en-Champagne, 2007, p. 32-33, ill. 33, n° 8 - SAUZAY Alexandre, Collection Sauvageot, I, Paris, Noblet et Baudry, 1863, Available on : http://bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/idurl/1/12472 , pl. 11 - SAUZAY Alexandre, Musée Impérial du Louvre. Catalog du Musée Sauvageot, Paris, Impr. Charles de Mourgues, frères, 1861, Available at: https://bibliotheque numerique.inha.fr/viewer/12476/?offset=#page=3viewer=pictureo=bookmarkn=0q= , p. 327, n° 1410 - COOMARASWAMY A.K., Mediaeval Sinhalese Art, Pantheon Books, 1956 reprint of the 1908 edition An object made in whole or in part of proboscidean ivory (Elephas Maximus or Loxodonta Africana). In accordance with the provisions of the regulation in force on the territory of the Union (Regulation (EU) No. 2021/2280 of 16/12/21), the object will be delivered to the buyer with its Intra-Community Certificate No. FR2306300018-K issued by the DREAL dated 27/02/2023, as well as with the expertise report duly drawn up by an approved independent expert In case of exit from the European territory, a re-export certificate, at the buyer's expense, will be necessary. The latter must also inquire beforehand about the legislation in force in the country of destination. Expert : Cabinet Artemis Estimations, Mr Pierre Grignon Dumoulin, expert of justice near the Court of Appeal of Amiens, 06.09.83.33.29, www.artemisestimations.com.