Lot 539
CANTON IVORY BRISÉ FAN Y
LATE 18TH CENTURY
Five Centuries: Furniture, Paintings & Works of Art
Auction: Day Two: 02 September 2021 | From 11:00
Description
carved with the initials EM, mounted in a cased frame
Dimensions
Cover stick 26cm long; 37cm x 48cm frame size
Footnote
Note: A note on the back of the frame reads: 'This fan was brought back from India by William Taylor Money as a present for his wife Eugenia Kyrle Money. He had it made with her initials on it, date about 1790. Now the property of her great, great grand daughter Enid Money Campbell. [? To be given to Susan Ryder Enid Money]'
Sir William Taylor Money (1769 – April 1834) was an English naval captain in the East Indian Company, superintendent of the Bombay Marine and MP in the British Parliament. A portrait of him and his two brothers hangs in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. It is entitled 'The Money Brothers: William Taylor, 1769-1834, James, 1772-1833, and Robert, 1775-1803, by John Francis Rigaud.
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