A fan, leaf painted with a lady and gentleman watching cargo being unloaded from a boat by Chinamen with a town and tower in the distance and two smaller reserves, one with a sailing boat and the other with cannons, the verso painted with Chinoiserie figures in a garden, the ivory sticks finely carved, pierced and gilt with shepherdesses, 11in., English, circa 1750, (upper guardstick broken)

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A fan, leaf painted with a lady and gentleman watching cargo being unloaded from a boat by Chinamen with a town and tower in the distance and two smaller reserves, one with a sailing boat and the other with cannons, the verso painted with Chinoiserie figures in a garden, the ivory sticks finely carved, pierced and gilt with shepherdesses, 11in., English, circa 1750, (upper guardstick broken)

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Provenance
Faucon, 1925

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