A fine fan, the leaf painted with a harvest scene, the verso with a farmer and his wife by a bridge, the ivory sticks carved, pierced and painted with a shepherd by a mill, putti and butterflies and a frieze of cockleshells, the handle forms the two shells of a cockle when the fan is closed - 11.5in. (29cm.), Flemish, circa 1740 - with 18th century English fan box

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A fine fan, the leaf painted with a harvest scene, the verso with a farmer and his wife by a bridge, the ivory sticks carved, pierced and painted with a shepherd by a mill, putti and butterflies and a frieze of cockleshells, the handle forms the two shells of a cockle when the fan is closed - 11.5in. (29cm.), Flemish, circa 1740 - with 18th century English fan box
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