Viagens do Amor, a rare fan painted with an allegorical chart of an imaginary continent with a sea, an erupting volcano, ten ships, castles and a lighthouse with names like, Templo do Dezengano, the ships with names such as Appetite and Constancia, the verso painted with a basket of flowers on gold ground, the mother of pearl sticks carved, pierced and gilt with figures, animals and flowers - 13in. (32.5cm.), Macao for the Portuguese market, late 18th century (one guardstick broken)

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Viagens do Amor, a rare fan painted with an allegorical chart of an imaginary continent with a sea, an erupting volcano, ten ships, castles and a lighthouse with names like, Templo do Dezengano, the ships with names such as Appetite and Constancia, the verso painted with a basket of flowers on gold ground, the mother of pearl sticks carved, pierced and gilt with figures, animals and flowers - 13in. (32.5cm.), Macao for the Portuguese market, late 18th century (one guardstick broken)
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Christie's South Kensington sold an English painted brise fan circa 1740 of this subject, lot 121 12 May 1994; and an 18th printed fan of this subject, lot 100, September 19, 1989. There are two printed versions in French in the Schreiber Collection, nos. 232 and 233, p. 103.

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