Venus at her toilet, a magnificently painted fan, the central group after a reverse print after Franceso Albani, putti watering Venus's swans at a fountain on the left and others taking care of her chariot on the right, Cupid's palace in the background, the verso painted with gold and silver foliage, the sticks of pierced ivory, the guardsticks of plain tortoiseshell - 10 ½in. (27cm), late 17th, early 18th century
Venus at her toilet, a magnificently painted fan, the central group after a reverse print after Franceso Albani, putti watering Venus's swans at a fountain on the left and others taking care of her chariot on the right, Cupid's palace in the background, the verso painted with gold and silver foliage, the sticks of pierced ivory, the guardsticks of plain tortoiseshell - 10 ½in. (27cm), late 17th, early 18th century

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Venus at her toilet, a magnificently painted fan, the central group after a reverse print after Franceso Albani, putti watering Venus's swans at a fountain on the left and others taking care of her chariot on the right, Cupid's palace in the background, the verso painted with gold and silver foliage, the sticks of pierced ivory, the guardsticks of plain tortoiseshell - 10 ½in. (27cm), late 17th, early 18th century
See Illustration p.37

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