A fan signed Faivre, the silk leaf painted with lilac and violets and butterflies, signed Faivre on a leaf, the verso painted with sprays of roses, Canterbury bells, snow-ball hydrangeas, nasturtiums, convulvulous, laburnum and other flowers and birds and with remains of inscription Madame Leon Franco, the tortoiseshell sticks pique in gold - 11in. (28cm.), circa 1865 (sticks broken and skilfully repaired, leaf split)

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A fan signed Faivre, the silk leaf painted with lilac and violets and butterflies, signed Faivre on a leaf, the verso painted with sprays of roses, Canterbury bells, snow-ball hydrangeas, nasturtiums, convulvulous, laburnum and other flowers and birds and with remains of inscription Madame Leon Franco, the tortoiseshell sticks pique in gold - 11in. (28cm.), circa 1865 (sticks broken and skilfully repaired, leaf split)

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Tony Faivre was an important fan painter of the period

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