A Canton fan, painted with figures by a pavilion with a pagoda beyond, against a purple silk ground, the figures with ivory faces and silk clothes, and two shaped landscape vignettes with pagodas, the verso with two vignettes of figures in gardens against a yellow silk ground, the figures with ivory faces and silk clothes, with variegated carved sticks of tortoiseshell, mother of pearl, silver and gilt filigree, ivory and sandalwood, the guardsticks of gilt filigree applied with silver filigree - 10in. (27cm.), circa 1860 - in fitted red, black and gold lacquer box (one guardstick repaired)