A ballooning fan, the leaf painted with the ascent of Mm. Charles et Robert above Nesles with delighted onlookers watching through a telescope, the verso the with Hongs at Canton, the mother of pearl sticks carved with Chinese figures, pierced and gilt - 11in., Canton for the European market, circa 1785 - in later box (repairs and leaf split at folds)

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A ballooning fan, the leaf painted with the ascent of Mm. Charles et Robert above Nesles with delighted onlookers watching through a telescope, the verso the with Hongs at Canton, the mother of pearl sticks carved with Chinese figures, pierced and gilt - 11in., Canton for the European market, circa 1785 - in later box (repairs and leaf split at folds)

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The ascent took place in 1783 but it probably took about a year for prints of it to arrive in Canton

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