The Fortune Teller, a fan, the silk leaf painted painted with the fortune teller, beside a bundle inscribed je lis dans les yeux, reading the fortunes of elegant ladies watched by a gentleman and a lady playing the guitar, two oval vignettes of urns of flowers, the ivory sticks of battoire shape carved and pierced with lovers and flowers, silvered and gilt - 11in.(27cm.), French, circa 1840 - in blue velvet box by Vanier, Bte de S.M. L'Imperatrice, 27, Rue de Caumartin, Paris, stamped on lid V.M. with coronet above, and inscribed on base Mme. la Marquise de Mournay, no.1740 (old repairs to verso of leaf)