A marriage fan, the leaf painted with a double-portrait within a heart-shaped frame with dolphins and double-headed eagles, and two circular vignettes of musicians and a man distributing bread and a group of figures watching a firework display, against a trompe l'oeil resembling blue silk brocaded with flowers, the verso with Cupid holding a flaming heart, the ivory sticks painted - 10in., 1770

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A marriage fan, the leaf painted with a double-portrait within a heart-shaped frame with dolphins and double-headed eagles, and two circular vignettes of musicians and a man distributing bread and a group of figures watching a firework display, against a trompe l'oeil resembling blue silk brocaded with flowers, the verso with Cupid holding a flaming heart, the ivory sticks painted - 10in., 1770

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Commemorating the marriage of the Dauphin, later Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette of Austria on May 16th 1770

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