A fan, the gauze leaf applied with a yellow poppy of pleated silk and three butterflies, with bone sticks - 14in. (34cm.), late 19th century; two Chinese embroidered fan cases; another case ; and two fans - one framed (6)

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A fan, the gauze leaf applied with a yellow poppy of pleated silk and three butterflies, with bone sticks - 14in. (34cm.), late 19th century; two Chinese embroidered fan cases; another case ; and two fans - one framed (6)

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A similar fan to the first mentioned fan but with three poppies and no butterflies and with wooden sticks, the leaf of palmette shape, in in the Historisches Museum, St. Gallen, Switzerland, inv. nr. 1994.229, exhibited catalogue no. 35 in Das gewisse etwas der Reiz des Fachers, St. Gallen, 1999.

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