A fan, the paper leaf painted with an elegant couple standing by a monument to the left, the centre with a shepherd and shepherdess and to the right music and bagpipes against a silver ground trimmed with foil, the verso with a Russian Duty stamp and painted with a rose and a red and blue scrolling border , the ivory sticks carved and pierced with the altar of love and gilt with a checkered design - 11in. (27cm.), French for the Russian market, circa 1775

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A fan, the paper leaf painted with an elegant couple standing by a monument to the left, the centre with a shepherd and shepherdess and to the right music and bagpipes against a silver ground trimmed with foil, the verso with a Russian Duty stamp and painted with a rose and a red and blue scrolling border , the ivory sticks carved and pierced with the altar of love and gilt with a checkered design - 11in. (27cm.), French for the Russian market, circa 1775

Lot Essay

The duty stamp is very close to one for St. Petersburg legibly dated 1759 on a fan in the Palace of Ostamkino, Moscow (912/Pz189) reproduced Tcherniakov, A.F., Fans, [1998] cat.12,p192

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