Retrato Encantador, retrato de lo que adoro, a novelty fan, the leaf a hand-coloured etching for a girl dreaming as four putti carry a portrait of her lover, the portrait is on a removable slide concealing a mirror with which the owner of the fan can mirror theirself, the verso with a palace in a landscape, the mother of pearl sticks gilt, the guardsticks with an overlay of ormolu worked with a jester and a Chinaman - 9in., French for the Spanish market, circa 1825

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Retrato Encantador, retrato de lo que adoro, a novelty fan, the leaf a hand-coloured etching for a girl dreaming as four putti carry a portrait of her lover, the portrait is on a removable slide concealing a mirror with which the owner of the fan can mirror theirself, the verso with a palace in a landscape, the mother of pearl sticks gilt, the guardsticks with an overlay of ormolu worked with a jester and a Chinaman - 9in., French for the Spanish market, circa 1825

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Hotel Drouot

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