Le Cygne, a fan, the shaped silk leaf painted with a swan spreading its wings amongst waterlilies and reeds, unsigned A. Thomasse, the serpentine sticks of blonde tortoiseshell, the guardsticks of mother of pearl - 10 ½in. (27cm), French, circa 1905, probably Duvelleroy

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Le Cygne, a fan, the shaped silk leaf painted with a swan spreading its wings amongst waterlilies and reeds, unsigned A. Thomasse, the serpentine sticks of blonde tortoiseshell, the guardsticks of mother of pearl - 10 ½in. (27cm), French, circa 1905, probably Duvelleroy
See Illustration p.36

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See L'Eventail, Miroir de la Belle Epoque, Paris 1985, cat.28 ill. p.50 for an identical fan with different sticks

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