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THE TOILET OF VENUS,
a fan painted with Cupid holding a mirror to Venus, and old woman with distaff to the left and two women to the right, ships and a swan beyond, the verso with a lady in a landscape within a border of flowers, the ivory sticks carved, pierced, painted and gilt with a family and flowers 11.5in. French, circa 1740, in rare 18th century English fan case for two fans, 2in. wide inscribed '2 fans Mrs. Barker's Wantage'
a fan painted with Cupid holding a mirror to Venus, and old woman with distaff to the left and two women to the right, ships and a swan beyond, the verso with a lady in a landscape within a border of flowers, the ivory sticks carved, pierced, painted and gilt with a family and flowers 11.5in. French, circa 1740, in rare 18th century English fan case for two fans, 2in. wide inscribed '2 fans Mrs. Barker's Wantage'
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