The Royal Palace of Aranjuez a small fan, the leaf painted with Fernando VI's gate to the long walk with the Tagus canal and the palace beyond, the gate inscribed Viva Fernando el sesto and the fan inscribed La Nueva Lenova, the verso with an elegant couple and child by a fountain, the ivory sticks carved, pierced and painted with putti and flowers against a blue ground, the handle carved to form flowers when closed - 8in. (21cm.), English for the Spanish market, circa 1750 (guardsticks repaired)
The Royal Palace of Aranjuez a small fan, the leaf painted with Fernando VI's gate to the long walk with the Tagus canal and the palace beyond, the gate inscribed Viva Fernando el sesto and the fan inscribed La Nueva Lenova, the verso with an elegant couple and child by a fountain, the ivory sticks carved, pierced and painted with putti and flowers against a blue ground, the handle carved to form flowers when closed - 8in. (21cm.), English for the Spanish market, circa 1750 (guardsticks repaired)

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The Royal Palace of Aranjuez a small fan, the leaf painted with Fernando VI's gate to the long walk with the Tagus canal and the palace beyond, the gate inscribed Viva Fernando el sesto and the fan inscribed La Nueva Lenova, the verso with an elegant couple and child by a fountain, the ivory sticks carved, pierced and painted with putti and flowers against a blue ground, the handle carved to form flowers when closed - 8in. (21cm.), English for the Spanish market, circa 1750 (guardsticks repaired)
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The gate was demolished by Fernando VI's stepbrother and successor Carlos III

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