Arrivee des Ambassadeurs Indiens au Port de Toulon, The arrival of the Mysore ambassadors at Toulon, a printed fan, the leaf a hand-coloured etching of the scene, decorated with spangles, the verso with a description of the scene, edged with a fringe of orange silk, with pierced bone sticks - 10in. (24cm.), French, 1787 - in English 18th century fan case (one guardstick broken, box lacks lid)

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Arrivee des Ambassadeurs Indiens au Port de Toulon, The arrival of the Mysore ambassadors at Toulon, a printed fan, the leaf a hand-coloured etching of the scene, decorated with spangles, the verso with a description of the scene, edged with a fringe of orange silk, with pierced bone sticks - 10in. (24cm.), French, 1787 - in English 18th century fan case (one guardstick broken, box lacks lid)
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Presumably Tippoo Sahib's embassy of 1787 under Muhammad Darvesh Khan. It was unsuccessful, as was a later one under M. M. Soulet, a Frenchman from Pondicherry in 1791. This latter with a gift of guns to get a force of 6000 French soldiers to help Tippoo Sultan against the English was rediculled "The embassy served only to amuse the French king and queen with the shabby finery of Tippoo's presents" P. Krishna Row " History of Madras", Bangalore 1868, p. 91
The verso inscribed: From Aunt Emma Unwin to Mother who gave it me on May 25th 1895
Not in the Schreiber Collection

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