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Hagar and Ishmael, a fan, the leaf painted with the Archangel Michael appearing to Hagar in the desert to point out a well, with pierced bone sticks - 10.5in. (27cm.), Dutch, circa 1780; a fan painted with a shepherd and a woman with a sickle, the verso with a shepherd's crook, a blue hat and a basket, the ivory sticks carved with faces, pierced , painted with shells and fruit and backed with red foil - 11in. (28cm.), English, circa 1770; and a fan painted with garlands of flowers and decorated with insertions of strips of silver and gold foil, the ivory sticks carved and pierced with birds, flowers and butterflies and trimmed with pink and gold foil - 11in. (26.5cm.), circa 1780 (3)