A fine fan painted with a classical scene, the verso with figures by a well, one digging, within a elaborate border with shells, a peacock and cockrells, a landscape vignette in tones of blue, and fruit, the ivory sticks carved and pierced with a fountain, putti and birds and painted, the verso also painted with shells and two shaped landscape vignettes in tones of blue - 12in. (31cm.), the leaf circa 1730, the sticks and borders probably late 19th century for the American market