A fine fan, the leaf painted with musique champetre, the verso with a couple in a landscape, inscribed Vanier 17 rue Caumartin Paris, the tortoiseshell sticks carved, pierced and gilt with lovers and putti and set with three miniatures, two under mica (one mica panel missing), Cupid and a putto and two lovers dancing, the guardstick with a couple - 11in. (28cm.), circa 1770

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A fine fan, the leaf painted with musique champetre, the verso with a couple in a landscape, inscribed Vanier 17 rue Caumartin Paris, the tortoiseshell sticks carved, pierced and gilt with lovers and putti and set with three miniatures, two under mica (one mica panel missing), Cupid and a putto and two lovers dancing, the guardstick with a couple - 11in. (28cm.), circa 1770

Lot Essay

Vanier, a perfumer and antique dealer, purveyed most of the antique fans for the Ball in Louis XV style give by the Duchesse of Berry. His partner Desrocher became a fanmaker and was father in law of Felix Alexandre.

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