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A fan, the leaf painted with the Ming Dynasty story of the girl who found a bracelet, then the owner proposes to her and marries her, the verso with Wu-Liu Wan, the wizard who has a stone by which he conjures up the mermaid, with wooden sticks - 12in. (30cm.), Chinese 19th century - in satin case embroidered with glass beads; and a Canton fan, painted recto and verso with figures on terraces, their faces of ivory, their clothes of silk, with variegated sticks of carved and pierced tortoiseshell, ivory and sandalwood - 11in. (28cm.), circa 1860 - in fitted lacquer box (2)