A ballooning fan, the satin leaf painted the ascent of Mm. Charles et Robert, and two smaller vignettes of balloons, the reserves embroidered with sequins and painted with two further balloons, the verso painted with three oval landscape vignettes, the ivory sticks carved and pierced with four ballooning scenes, the guardsticks also carved with balloons, the sticks carved with the inscription seconde desente enlevement du globe areostatic desente a nel - 11in., French, 1783 (leaf worn, verso stained)