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A RARE FOLDING POCKET FAN
the leaf a hand-coloured lithograph of shepherds and shepherdesses, the verso with a house in a landscape, with bone sticks pierced and gilt--11.5in. (29.2cm) open, 1855
the leaf a hand-coloured lithograph of shepherds and shepherdesses, the verso with a house in a landscape, with bone sticks pierced and gilt--11.5in. (29.2cm) open, 1855
Literature
The broken hinge appears similar to the patents registered by Buissot Freres and by Hyppolite-Aimable Closier in 1855. See Volet, Maryse, L'Imagination au Service de l'Eventail, Vesenaz 1986, pp 13 and 17 nos. 55. and 56.
Special notice
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