A rare folding pocket fan, the leaf painted with a pastiche of two elegant ladies with a bird on a string, the verso with lady and two Chinoiserie panels, the ivory sticks gilt and hinged below the mount to allow the fan to be folded in two when closed - 11in., circa 1855

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A rare folding pocket fan, the leaf painted with a pastiche of two elegant ladies with a bird on a string, the verso with lady and two Chinoiserie panels, the ivory sticks gilt and hinged below the mount to allow the fan to be folded in two when closed - 11in., circa 1855

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Provenance

Faucon, no. 2013, 1925

Lot Essay

The hinge appears similar to the patents registered by Buissot Frères and by Hyppolite-Aimable Closier in 1855, but the shape of the sticks differs. See Volet, Maryse, L'Imagination au Service de l'Eventail, pp.13 and 15, nos. 55 and 56.

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