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A fan, the silk leaf embroidered with an oval hairwork vignette of a man fishing with ships and buildings beyond, and two vignettes worked with trophies of love in coloured silks, the reserves embroidered with garlands of flowers and trimmed with sequins and spangles, the ivory sticks silvered - 10.5in., late 18th century (verso of leaf restored, guardsticks repaired)
See illustration fan not fully extended
See illustration fan not fully extended