A rare fan set with a thermometer and dated 1778, the satin leaf painted with a thermometer dated 1778 and two groups of elegant musicians, their faces painted on paper and applied, their clothes outlined with gold braid, the verso painted with flowers, the ivory sticks carved and pierced with the toilet of Venus, the upper guardstick set with a thermometer calibrated in centigrade and reamur, the lowers guardstick carved with a weather vane - 11in. (28cm.), 1778 (old repairs to verso)

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A rare fan set with a thermometer and dated 1778, the satin leaf painted with a thermometer dated 1778 and two groups of elegant musicians, their faces painted on paper and applied, their clothes outlined with gold braid, the verso painted with flowers, the ivory sticks carved and pierced with the toilet of Venus, the upper guardstick set with a thermometer calibrated in centigrade and reamur, the lowers guardstick carved with a weather vane - 11in. (28cm.), 1778 (old repairs to verso)
See Colour Plate on Front Cover and Plate 6

Lot Essay

There is another thermometer fan in the museum at Bordeaux. Two others have been sold at Christie's South Kensington in the last thirty-five years, one in 1979 inscribed Duflos fecit, London 1778. The other in December 1986 from the collection of Brigadier Llewellyn Palmer

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