A rare straw-work fan with pagoda sticks, the chickenskin leaf with three coloured straw-work vignettes of a young man clipping Cupid's wing, a lady with a fan and a dog and another with two parrakeets, the reserves painted with a trompe l'oeil of lace, flowers. strawberries and grapes against a dark blue ground, the verso of paper painted with a shepherd in a landscape, the ivory sticks decorated with three straw-work vignettes, two men and a butterfly, and an urn and a vase of flowers, the reseserves painted with a trompe l'oeil of flowers and lace against a dark blue ground, the upper guardsticks decorated in straw-work with Bellona - 10in. (25cm), circa 1750